Sea Shepherd records their attacks on the Nisshin Maru, Greenpeace-style

This video shows Sea Shepherd trying to attack the Japanese research mother ship Nisshin Maru while taking footage of their dangerous actions.
Their maneuver is an imitation of the stunts Greenpeace used to perform until last year.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• whaling
• sea
• shepherd
• japan
• ecoterrorism
• whale
• wars
• research

[info145]

TV stations have sent cameramen to the Japanese ships to film their side of this whole war and get their insight, and they repeatedly decline to have witnesses onboard their "friendly science vessel".

There's an old saying: "It's better to be silent and thought a fool, than to speak up and remove all doubt."

[isanatori]

@info145 Considering how well the footage taken by the Animal Planet is being edited (ever seen the green laser light in Whale Wars?), I wouldn't blame the Japanese for refusing to let Animal Planet on board their ships.

[info145]

Put into perspective:

Feb. 6 2009: "A boat with anti-whaling activists collides with a Japanese whaling vessel in the Antarctic Ocean. No one was injured. Japan is condemning the clash, calling it unforgivable."

Jan. 6 2010: "A Japanese whaling vessel collided with an anti-whaling activists' powerboat. The vessel sunk. There was one injury reported. The Japanese officials have since repeatedly refused to cooperate with investigations over this collision."

Does anyone smell a rat?

[isanatori]

@info145 Yeah. I see a common point: Sea Shepherd "protest" activities make chances of collision very high. Also, who was best served publicity-wise by these collisions? Who had a TV crew on board that could use the collisions for PR?

[Pietiman]

Whalers are Criminals so Sea Sheperd are the good ones.

For the oceans !!!

[Rot3rSand]

There is no research vessel, only a slaughtering machine.

[chrisbrockobama]

people can argue all day and night who is good and who is bad. but it's this simple, who is killing in cold blood and who is trying to stop that? not hard to answer that one

[r3zk]

What were they attempting to do in those small boats?

[hunterziegelmann]

@isanatori I saw the episode on TV where they collide with the japanese ship and until today when i saw the same collision at a different angle i thought it was the whalers fault but in the helicopter shots you see them plow into the side of the japanese boat and nearly flip then they proceed to toss chemichals adn shoot water jets at japanese. All japan needs to do is send in a battleship to fire off warning shots and if sea sheppard rams that and survives it will probably be blown up.

[info145]

@isanatori i keep telling people that. The Sea Shepherds are there for several goals, the key one is PUBLICITY. To open some eyes on awareness of what's happening in the whale's sanctuary. Then and only then will laws be changed. People have been blind to all this and that's how the Japanese wanted to keep it. They're even fighting the wide spread release of "The Cove" in Japan. Violently, if they have to.