I wonder how much of this information is included at the Sea Shepherd's HQ in Washington state...I looked at their website...don't look like they've made a U.S. call since 2005.

The big shoot out episode is tomorrow.

I've seen plenty of GUNEXes...maybe the Japanese are better than a 210' .500 cal mount, M-240 mounts, or M-16s fired from a GM...I think it interesting, based on the previews, with all of the interactive forces between the too ships, the sea conditions...


How Paul Watson is the ONLY person wear a bullet proof vest, how he's the ONLY person "shot" and how that shot hits his badge. He has never supplied the badge to authorities. His reaction after he was shot...."oh cr@p" I believe. Apparently being shot is no where near as bad as OC spray...

Yes, last week's episode is being rerun in most locations, as I write this. The new episode (season finale from the last whale research season, March 2008) will follow next.

If you want to read a blog about what happens/happened, then you may want to check out this site:
w w w.seashepherd.org/migaloo/blog.html

I found the above blog to be interesting, although biased to the side of the terrorist pirates, of course. Their story about how the Steve Irwin's Captain Watson supposedly was shot in his badge, might possibly be used in evidence against Captain Watson, and whoever conspired along with him to fake it.

I mean, did they do it on their ship, or did they have the vest and badge already rigged up on land, before they left. I wonder if there is any video of that, secreted somewhere. You know, like the way idiot criminals and gangs sometimes video their criminal actions?

Meanwhile, happening now in real time is the videotaping of the 2008/2009 season, as the Steve Irwin is nearly on scene in the whale research area, currently.

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Meanwhile, happening now in real time is the videotaping of the 2008/2009 season, as the Steve Irwin is nearly on scene in the whale research area, currently.

New Crew too including:

Jane Taylor, a former Navy lieutenant who resigned her commission in September to pursue a career in animal rescue, has set sail on the research vessel Steve Irwin as part of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. The ship is named for the late host of television’s popular “Crocodile Hunter” series.

Source: Navy Times / "PETA names sexiest vegetarian troops", By Karen Jowers - Staff writer
Posted : Saturday Dec 13, 2008 7:43:28 EST

That fool did NOT get shot! No frigging way!! There was no reaction when the ‘shot’ hit! None. He said he felt his ‘badge’ scratching him. There was no upper body motion that is necessary to disperse the energy of stopping a bullet. It was a setup. Nothing more than publicity stunt! And sadly, many will believe this fool was shot and will donate to him and his pirate crew.

They whined about the Japanese using violence against them. WTF? They are flying a pirate flag. They are attacking the vessel using chemical warfare. They boarded the vessel without authorization. This ship of fools is wrong. Hopefully, someday they will be held accountable for their actions! And hopefully, their incompetence will not kill someone.

Based on his reaction...I would rather be shot now than pepper sprayed. Don't look like being shot is all that bad...right?

It's all Sea Shepherd's propaganda...nothing more. They never supplied the bullet or badge to authorities. I've been talking to someone who was on the ship...there seems to be a great deal of doubt about the "shooting" too.

And then of course they need to get everyone on the bridge, which each need to say "Oh no Paul, you've been shot." and "Oh, you would have died without that vest."

Don't believe it for a second...it was a plant, nothing more.

To me any way, the bullet removed from the vest looked like a small caliber handgun round, Wild Bill himself would not believe that shot. Lame set up ! if they are going to fake a shooting they should do some research first. But it was funny !

The bullet also seemed to be pretty intact.

Lame only begins to describe the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and Paul Watson.

The shot was a joke.

I wonder why the japanese CG was on the factory ship but not the others. I would have loved to see a tear gas grenade go off in a shepards face, it amazed me when the sea shepards began to complain about the tear gas and flash grenades. They thought the chemicals they were using was ok.....

What kind of TOOL captain says that he's willing to die for a cause yet wears body armor and sends his crew out on deck to throw crap with nothing on but sweatshirts. If I were one of the people on that boat I would be wondering about that one.

Where's the bruise? The only injury was a pin stab from badge. Where's the hole in the mustang suit?

Great "shot" from a moving vessel, waves and wind, to hit exactly in the chest... :rolleye

It's all cheap theatrics and sensationalism.

The "bullet" looked like a piece of soft metal that they hit with a small ball pein hammer, pried it off the ball and formed it to the badge.
From that distance the round wouldn't have even penetrated the mustang let alone the vest. And if the Japanese were trying to shoot him, they would've used a rifle.

I really would love to see the Japanese CG tag along with the whaling fleet and board the Steve Erwin in the middle of the night. Maybe the Japanese government has a little known bilateral agreement with Australia that they could use to legally get on board and shake them up alittle bit.
Even if they don't......board them anyway's under SOLAS. Goes against the spirit of SOLAS but it would be entertaining to see the Sea Shepards shait themselves.

There's two things I'd like to see on next seasons Whale Wars.

1.Watch the Sea Shepherds "deploy" their sub and subsequently sink it. Yes they have a sub.

2. Have the Japanese bring along a Pro Whaling organization with their own boat and harass the Sea Shepherds in the same manner.

The criminal actions of the Sea Shepherds, crew of the Steve Irwin, which were depicted in the season finale TV show last Saturday, Dec 20, should have put them all in jail, except for the complications of legal jurisdiction only.

The conspiracy to fake the Captain being shot should also get the conspirators prosecuted. Furthermore, a class action lawsuit should be filed by all donors, who sent the Sea Shepherd group money, upon the false basis of the Captain getting shot. Note the first thing the Captain did was get on the Sat Phone and spread his propaganda about him being shot, to generate more donations.

For anyone, who didn’t get to see that particular video, it is available online for almost free. All you have to do is sit through a 45 second commercial, before the videos become available, at the following:

w w w.animal.discovery.com/tv/whale-wars/video/

Select from the menu, the one titled, “Whale Wars; Attack Gone Wrong.” And if you want to see another video, another commercial will come up first.

It is among about 30 Whale Wars videos of varying lengths (1 min, to 4 mins each), which initially must have been considered too controversial or negative toward the Sea Shep criminal group, because they are labeled as “Deleted Scenes.”

No doubt that the higher Execs at Discovery must have told Animal Planet that they darn well better put them in if they want the ratings to get them another season. The less exciting ones actually did not make air.

That season finale showed just how low the Sea Shepherd criminals go, when they bombed the Japanese ship.

They started with bombs of glass bottles of Butyric Acid, also known as butanoic acid. It is a viscous, foul-smelling liquid carboxylic acid (like a clear thick oil smells like vomit and very strong body odor),; It only takes 10 parts per million for humans to smell it’s skunk-like smell. It is mixable with water, so trying to hose it off the decks spreads it out, in just a more dissolved state.

Remember, it is oily, and is delivered in a glass bomb. So this puts an intolerable nasal irritant on the deck of their victim, which is slippery, very difficult to wash off and also contains glass particles.

Think of the injuries that causes on the decks of a ship at sea. Those of us who have been at sea on working vessels know what injuries that will cause. But that alone is not evil enough for the criminal Sea Shepherds on the Steve Irwin. They also follow that with bombs of Methacel, to make the decks even more slippery, and nearly impossible to wash off.

Methacel is a water insoluble, freeze dried polymer lattice powder, which spreads out on the deck like millions of silicate marbles. It mixes with the Butanoic/Butyric Acid oil, to form an extremely hazardous combination. It is about as far as terrorists can go as a weapon combination. Without firing weapons, it is guaranteed to disable the ship for a long cleanup process, which is also guaranteed to cause serious injuries.

In fact, the Japanese crew did report 3 of their crewmembers injured within an hour of the Sea Shepherds attack on them. Think of the respiratory system irritation. Think of the falls on deck, from ladders, from upper levels, on the broken glass from the bottle delivered bombs, etc.

These are outright terrorist crimes committed by the Sea Shepherd crew on the Steve Irwin, and recorded by the Animal Planet videographers.

All of them should be in jails right now, except perhaps for the videographers.

The video alone shows that they are terrorist criminals.

Instead, currently they are up to exactly the same thing again, with impunity, so far.

There are too many news reports and Sea Shepherd news releases to post here, but I will post the most recent one below. If you want to see more, just go to the Sea Shepherd propaganda news center, at -

w w.seashepherd.org/

Saturday, December 20, 2008

"Whale Wars Finale Ends as Whale Wars Two Begins"

On the day that the final episode of Whale Wars airs in the United States, the crew of the Steve Irwin once again intercepted the Japanese whaling fleet off the coast of Antarctica.

"It does not get more real than this," said Captain Paul Watson. "While people are sitting in their living rooms watching our campaign against the whalers that took place last season we are at the same time in the icy hostile seas of Antarctica engaged with the whalers this season. There is an Animal Planet crew onboard and the cameras are rolling for season two of Whale Wars."

This is the quickest and earliest that the Japanese fleet has been found and Sea Shepherd is hopeful this will translate into major profit losses for the illegal Japanese whaling fleet and that more whales will be spared an agonizing death from the harpoons than last season when Sea Shepherd intervention cut the Japanese kill quota in half.

"We've got them on the run," said Sea Shepherd 2nd Officer Peter Hammarstedt of Sweden. "The chase is on and we will dog them, harass them, continually intercept them and we will silence the harpoons."

The crew are in high spirits.

"This is going to be a wonderful gift for the whales this Christmas," said Shannon Mann from Canada.

"I'm feeling really good about being here," said Amber Paarman of South Africa.

"There is no place else I would rather be than down here in these waters chasing these killers," said Jeff Hansen from Western Australia.

Both the whaling fleet and the Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin are moving slowly through thick ice in the midst of a strong blizzard with 50 knot winds.
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The Sea Sheperds are a bunch of frigging idiots.

One thing to bear in mind is that Animal Planet has an agenda-commercial ratings-especially with programs that appeal to people who love...animals. They capatilize on people's ignorance (including mine) of those unfamiliar with international laws. This show is designed to enrage Americans and keep them glued to the TV-nothing more. Doing so puts money in the Sea Sheperd's coffers.

I personally find whales to be majestic critters and that Japan's profitable slaughter (under any pretense) is deplorable.

However, the laws and treaties surrounding whaling and the moratoriums that were signed are the real issue. It's tough for an alliance of nations to protect it's law driven domestic interests, let alone those set up in an international council. I am no expert, but it seems to me that the countries who signed the moratorium on whaling in the waters that the Japanese whaling fleet frequents should be responsible for policing one another. It seems the STEVE IRWIN has absolutely no legitimate right to "enforce" the international treaty paper they carry around in that zip lock baggy.

Too damned bad they are soiling Mr. Irwin's name in the process. I would be irate if I were Terri Irwin.

NoSpam,

Terri Irwin was there to break the bottle...happened in episode 1. I've lost a good deal of respect for the Irwins.

Yes, but she did so before all of this came to light. She gave permission to use the name of her late husband and christened the ship, based upon far different pretenses than what the Sea Shepherds did last season.

I believe that if she knew (or if Steve was still alive and knew) exactly what dangerous tactics the criminal Sea Shepherds are using against human beings, they would both get as far away as Greenpeace has, and as quickly, too.

Look, even Darryl Hannah left them cold, once she got the real picture of who they are and what they are actually doing.

I'm hoping someone does a little more research than you're suggesting Terri did before allowing them to use her husband's name.

They've been around for awhile...as has the various YouTube videos...

Yeah I hear you. I'm giving her the benefit of doubt, though. After all, she's had a lot to deal with, since Steve was taken so suddenly. Lots of shock. Two small kids to raise. The whole company, foundation and TV projects left for her signature authority.

Plus frankly like many people, perhaps she was a little naive, when it came to facing the criminality and even the calculated brutality that the Sea Shepherds are actually carrying out. I have to admit, until I saw this Animal Planet's Whale Wars, I was mostly unaware of how far they go in crimes and hurting people, too.