Sea Shepherd gets the Poacher Kaiko Maru

26/12/2008 - The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship Steve Irwin closed in on one of the vessels of the Japanese whaling fleet at 0730 Hours GMT (1930 Hours Sydney Time) on December 26th off the coast of the Australian Antarctic Territory north of the Mawson Peninsula.

The Kaiko Maru emerged from dense fog in front of the Steve Irwin. The Sea Shepherd crew pursued and delivered 10 bottles of rotten butter and 15 bottles of a methyl cellulose and indelible dye mixture.

"That is one stinky slippery ship," said Sea Shepherd 2nd Officer Peter Hammarstedt of Sweden.

The Japanese ship was ordered out of the territorial waters of Australia by Australian citizen Jeff Hansen from Perth, Western Australia. The message was delivered in Japanese.

As the Steve Irwin came alongside the starboard side of the Kaiko Maru, the whaler steered hard to starboard and struck the Steve Irwin lightly crushing part of the aft port helicopter deck guard rails on the Sea Shepherd ship. There was no serious damage to either ship.
The Sea Shepherd crew's objective was to intimidate the Japanese fleet and to keep them moving Eastward out of Australian Territorial waters. The Sea Shepherd crew have been pursuing the fleet eastward for a week. There is only 90 miles left before the fleet enters the New Zealand Zone.

"Our objective now is to chase them out of Australia's Economic Exclusion Zone," said Captain Paul Watson. "I have a chart here and it clearly states that these waters are Australian EEZ. There is an Australian Federal Court Order specifically prohibiting these ships from whaling in these waters. We have informed the whalers they are in contempt of this Court ruling."

There is no doubt that Japanese whaling in Australian waters has been severely disrupted. Since Saturday, the Sea Shepherd crew have chased the Japanese fleet for 400 miles through heavy fog, dense ice and nasty weather. During that time they have not been able to kill any whales.

"We still have them on the run and we intend to keep them on the run for as long as our fuel resources allow," said Captain Watson.

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• Whaling

[jswagg31500]

me and my freind used to reacord these on our fones and pretend we wer tha ships and we would play computure games with these ships and repeat the speeches until people around us told us to shut up with

[AlphaNinja1000]

@todadog hahaha

[todadog]

@AlphaNinja1000

yes they produces a lot of evidence, after 2 decades of research they finaly scientificly proved that whales are bigger than humans!!! isnt that good news? and they proved that whales eat a lot!! now the word is not "eat as much as a horse" now its "eat as much as a whale"

wow amazing discoveries they did

[AlphaNinja1000]

@APsupportsTerrorism despite all forms of science? havent u realised by know the japanese arent about science and its all about the killing? if they were scientists then why do they need to killl 1000 whales every year. they havent even released one piece of info about science dude.

[HappyHateDay]

I guess I need to watch this latest season... I have been watching it but this year I got sidetracked and couldn't see it.

[Kahndawg]

Mmmmm whale, it's what's for dinner.

[Lowfun]

@JonnysCentral hehe. The more you speak the more I'm beginning to think you are handicapped in some way?You should learn how the eco system works. How we depend on the ocean and it's inhabitants. What exactly do you do when you know things are wrong? nothing? Just go with the flow? Ignore it? I can only hope one day you will learn what it's like to stand up and fight and I don't mean with your mommy because you didn't get the right kind of cereal. Anywho. This is all I have to say. Best of luck.

[JonnysCentral]

@Lowfun Oh shit I forgot. You hug trees and only look inside the box. What Japan is doing is wrong. But as long as they have just enough laws they can do it, And the SS vessels are going to be sunk/Borded and Japan will take them in as TERRORISTS, they will never see the light of day if they don't stop, There better of holding up signs... But your WAYYYY to smart to understand anything with logic. It's the way the world spins if your not used to it by now you never will be, go back to school.

[JonnysCentral]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh,,,So beause the japs found a way around the law, Back up the "terrorists"/pirates with no laws protecting me........and if you did read books you wouldn't even bother commenting on a lost cause, Beause you would be smart enough to no that NO COUNTRY in their right minds will do anything to stop them with force...BUT Japan has the right to use military force if they think is needed, But by driving a boat around another boat is wasting fule men in wemon are fighting over seas for..

[Lowfun]

@JonnysCentral You show your true nature in the words you choose. Your a number 1 retard in my books. But i'm sure you don't care and will find some nice language to reply with! ignorant fool.