January 11, 2012 Steve Irwin Small Boat's Attack Yushin Maru # 2 With Ropes and Butyric acid

Sea Shepherd Dancing Dangerously With the Outlaw Whaling Fleet in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary

The nautical chess pieces continue to move and the board keeps changing in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

The Shonan Maru #2 is no longer chasing the Steve Irwin. The security vessel has been replaced by the harpoon vessel Yushin Maru #2. It is assumed that the Shonan Maru #2 will now head west towards the Australian customs vessel Ocean Protector to turn over the three Australian prisoners onboard. With the Yushin Maru #2 now following the Steve Irwin, and the Yushin Maru #3 still at Macquarie Island, the Nisshin Maru now has only one harpoon vessel left - the Yushin Maru.

Sea Shepherd has temporarily lost drone contact with the Nisshin Maru and cannot guarantee that whaling has not begun. If so, it will proceed with two of the three harpoon vessels not involved in killing operations. "If we had one more ship, there would be no possibility of any whales dying," said Captain Paul Watson. "In July I met with Greenpeace representatives at the IWC and requested of them that they send one ship to support us. I told them that one more ship would shut down this entire fleet. They refused, and that is deeply disappointing, and as a result whales may die."

Sea Shepherd is working to secure a third large, fast, ice-strengthened vessel to return next season. The Sea Shepherd fast scout vessel Brigitte Bardot remains in Fremantle undergoing repairs from damage caused by the extreme weather conditions of the Southern Ocean.

"We have demonstrated that we can shut these poachers down and every year we become more effective than the year before. One more ship will give us the ability to throw a blanket of intervention over them that will completely extinguish their illegal operations," said Captain Paul Watson.

The dropping away of the Shonan Maru #2 removes the possibility of the transfer of the three Forest Rescue men to the Steve Irwin. The transfer of the men to the Steve Irwin would have saved the Australian government hundreds of thousands of dollars. Meanwhile despite being ordered out of the territorial waters of Australia's MacQuarie Island, the Yushin Maru #3 continues to illegally remain inside the twelve mile territorial limit.

"The Japanese whalers act like they own the entire Southern Ocean," said Bob Barker Captain Alex Cornelissen of the Netherlands. "They go where they want, when they want, and do what they want, with complete contempt for Australian sovereignty."

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[drkuroneko]

@ListeningOwl1 Oh, I see. Only cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, deer, sheep, fish, (the list goes on) and all the plants are exempt from love.

[ListeningOwl1]

@drkuroneko not into a name calling key board warrior style debate here. imo, when any animal be it human or other protects another I call that love. A mother protects her child out of love. Whales are not exempt from this as time again they have been witnessed in protecting their young. They also play around with them. Love... it's universal. peace

[unkeihokusai]

The whale of 1000 and the dolphin of 10,000 are killed every year.

Thus, it is not exterminated even if a small number of whale and dolphin are killed.

It is the same as cow and pig.

There are 83 kinds of whales.

On the other hand, the whale of the sea of the North Pole which Americans kill is just before extinction.

[unkeihokusai]

I use a translation machine.

I was not interested in whaling and a dolphin fishery before.

However, whites' lie and ethnic discrimination were witnessed by web or TV, and Japan was absolutely sure that whaling should be continued.

[stupidmariofan12]

Japs should be hunted down by whales great job ss keep on going

[DTofMN]

@Muziify Well there's your problem (well one of them) I eat food not shit. You should try changing your diet maybe it will help your cognition.

[Muziify]

@DTofMN Are you retarded? He fights against every race, that proves he is not hating on the Japanese! Wow I really dont know what shit you feed on!!

[tasteegold7772]

i'll tell ya the thing that makes the SSCS crewmen even more kickass is how they come within inches of those slimy japs rustbucket ships and dont even care..their just out to do ONE THING and do it well and that pound those yellow midget beatnuts over the skulls and send em home broke and beaten and the biggest knee slapper is the japs cant do a fucking thing about it but whine and moan LMFAO..FUCK EM UP AGAIN AND AGAIN SEA SHEPHERD!!..

[Kcjones1212]

wish the whales were Japanese, would feel how to get killed by themselves!

[DTofMN]

@Muziify How does that prove he isn't a racist.

P.S. You are a dumb ass but no one wants you.