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post #1321 of 1454
6/5/11 at 12:38pm
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Yeah, I watched it. Gojira looks a lot like the Ady Gil on steriods. I haven't really looked into the history of this ship... but it looks so much like the Gil, I was wondering if Bethune had anything to do with it.

The Gojira was built prior to the Ady Gil.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Brigitte_Bardot

Brigitte Bardot
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In May 2011 the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society was served with a notice from the copyright holders of the Gojira/Godzilla franchise,[citation needed] regarding the unauthorized use of the trademark. The Society promptly changed the vessel's name to the Brigitte Bardot in honor of the French fashion model, actress, and singer whom Paul Watson, the founder of Sea Shepherd, took on an anti-sealing trip in 1977.



As for the new season, I watched the first episode but viewing doesn't get fun until the SS begins their shenanigans.
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post #1322 of 1454
6/5/11 at 5:39pm
I've come to the conclusion this show has the most cliche's mentioned in the history of cliche's. It's amazing how many different ways they can say the exact same thing, yet get it in an episode 10+ times.
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post #1323 of 1454
6/6/11 at 7:15am
I finally caught it yesterday. Like most seasons, it started slow. Unlike most seasons, they probably will actually have an effect on whaling.

Also, I got a sense that everything was more professional. I can't put my finger on it, but I am expecting less of the comedy gold that really made the show in the past.
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post #1324 of 1454
6/6/11 at 8:04am
They've had almost no actual affect on whaling. We've seen in the past that the Sea Shepherds are powerless to actually stop the operation, even when they have a boat directly behind the factory ship. Their claim that they caused them to only reach half their quota last year is bogus. The quota is far in excess of the market for whale meat. Even the Norwegians only harvest around 500 whales a year with a 900-1000 whale quota - and they operate "unopposed". The Japanese will harvest what they can sell, then end their season.

If we want the entertainment value back, we need them to head to the North Atlantic. The Norwegians will not be so passive in exercising their rights to defend themselves. Of course that's probably why the SSers will continue to allow them to whale unchecked.
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post #1325 of 1454
6/6/11 at 9:12am
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Originally Posted by CPanther95 View Post

They've had almost no actual affect on whaling. We've seen in the past that the Sea Shepherds are powerless to actually stop the operation, even when they have a boat directly behind the factory ship. Their claim that they caused them to only reach half their quota last year is bogus. The quota is far in excess of the market for whale meat. Even the Norwegians only harvest around 500 whales a year with a 900-1000 whale quota - and they operate "unopposed". The Japanese will harvest what they can sell, then end their season.

If we want the entertainment value back, we need them to head to the North Atlantic. The Norwegians will not be so passive in exercising their rights to defend themselves. Of course that's probably why the SSers will continue to allow them to whale unchecked.

Yeah, that is correct. The quota is a joke and in the past the SSers really haven't done much.


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This year, however, it was reported that the Japanese called off the season early due to the SS being on the factory ships tail from the beginning. This report states that the whale catch this year was estimated at 30-100.


So this year it looks like they actually had an effect.
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post #1326 of 1454
6/6/11 at 9:30am
I watched it Friday night, can't wait for the season to ramp up.
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post #1327 of 1454
6/6/11 at 10:19am
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This year, however, it was reported that the Japanese called off the season early due to the SS being on the factory ships tail from the beginning. This report states that the whale catch this year was estimated at 30-100.


So this year it looks like they actually had an effect.

The declining market can be blamed. Everything else is just PR. They took in over 170 whales this season and in previous years their catch far exceeded what could be sold. Even at "half" of their quota, much of what was caught was basically wasted.

Fortunately for the whales, younger generations of Japanese don't have the appetite for whale meat. Same thing in Norway:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/outp...suspended.html
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post #1328 of 1454
6/6/11 at 12:33pm
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Originally Posted by CPanther95 View Post
Fortunately for the whales, younger generations of Japanese don't have the appetite for whale meat.
No doubt that SS will try and claim credit for that, that is, from an "educational" standpoint.
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post #1329 of 1454
6/18/11 at 5:46pm
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LOL! They prop fouled thier own boat!
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post #1330 of 1454
6/18/11 at 8:42pm
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LOL! They prop fouled thier own boat!

That was awesome.
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post #1331 of 1454
6/19/11 at 5:34am
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LOL! They prop fouled thier own boat!

So I guess they do know how to use it.

Maybe next week we will be able to hear the people speaking again, Friday night was awful. There were a few times when the music was up so high I couldn't hear the narrator.
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post #1332 of 1454
6/19/11 at 2:13pm
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Originally Posted by mx6bfast View Post

So I guess they do know how to use it.

Maybe next week we will be able to hear the people speaking again, Friday night was awful. There were a few times when the music was up so high I couldn't hear the narrator.

Thank goodness I wasn't the only one. I was worried my system was at fault.

That was some HOT background music. I felt I was watching a silent movie with a sociopathic organist.
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post #1333 of 1454
6/20/11 at 10:27am
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Originally Posted by Garrett Adams View Post

Thank goodness I wasn't the only one. I was worried my system was at fault.

That was some HOT background music. I felt I was watching a silent movie with a sociopathic organist.

Same with me, via Directv. I actually got up to look if my center channel speaker somehow was unplugged.

LMAO at them prop-fouling their own vessel! Every year them seem to take it up a notch!
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post #1334 of 1454
6/24/11 at 8:22pm
Another sign of the brilliance of these people, lets leave 2 small boats out in the freezing cold ocean.
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post #1335 of 1454
6/24/11 at 10:06pm
At the end of the episode they really played it up as if all were lost to hypothermia. I guess we were suppose to forget the episode's many post event interviews of small boat team members after they returned to the main ship.
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post #1336 of 1454
6/25/11 at 7:33am
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At the end of the episode they really played it up as if all were lost to hypothermia. I guess we were suppose to forget the episode's many post event interviews of small boat team members after they returned to the main ship.

Yeah, I agree with the way the ending was edited.

I wouldn't have sat there and waited. Put everyone in one boat, tow the other boat, and meet the Bob Barker half-way. The water was choppy, but it didn't look that bad.
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post #1337 of 1454
6/25/11 at 11:12am
If hypothermia causes poor decision making, do the Sea Shepherds actually become smarter?
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post #1338 of 1454
6/25/11 at 1:51pm
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If hypothermia causes poor decision making, do the Sea Shepherds actually become smarter?

HAHA brutal!


For them to just sit there in the boat was inexplicable. If they had no way to communicate regularly then sure, stay by the big ice burg. The plan was reasonably decent, but as usual they couldnt pull it off without screwing it up.

Two things I noticed:

While they were stranded, there were countless times that they saw marine life that they are trying to save and ignored them. Quite a bit different response when they were in a dire situation rather than just playing sailors.

Did they really start heading towards the rendezvous point, realize their boat was damaged and they sped back to the ice berg? Isnt that pretty counter intuitive?


Atleast things are actually happening this season.
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post #1339 of 1454
6/25/11 at 3:38pm
I never heard the cameraman saying anything about being cold, hmm.
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post #1340 of 1454
6/25/11 at 4:55pm
Yeah, I was thinking the terrifically dramatic ending was pretty well spoiled by the interview with Potsy (talking about how he should have used better judgment as they waited on the boats) edited in just a few minutes earlier. Obviously if he was alive to tell about it, that kind of spoils the idea that possibly nobody survived. Chances still seem good that the guy in the bag didn't make it, though...
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post #1341 of 1454
6/25/11 at 9:09pm
"These are the last images taken on the boat"

My guess is the battery to the camera ran out of juice.
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post #1342 of 1454
6/25/11 at 10:36pm
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Originally Posted by mx6bfast View Post

"These are the last images taken on the boat"

My guess is the battery to the camera ran out of juice.

More likely he dropped the camera overboard while changing to a new recording tape. That would be an act consistent with the rest of this crew.
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post #1343 of 1454
6/26/11 at 3:56am
Fail Wars continues with most of the crew dying on some inflatable boat.

Pure Genius!
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post #1344 of 1454
6/26/11 at 8:05am
"After 8 hours at sea, these were the last images taken from the boat"

Just means that those images were the last images before the timer hit 8:00:00.

Was I the only one hoping that a whale would come along and sink one of the inflatables?
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post #1345 of 1454
6/26/11 at 8:54am
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Originally Posted by CPanther95 View Post

"After 8 hours at sea, these were the last images taken from the boat"

Just means that those images were the last images before the timer hit 8:00:00.

Was I the only one hoping that a whale would come along and sink one of the inflatables?

That would have been some irony-gold if that had happened.
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post #1346 of 1454
6/26/11 at 12:14pm
Yeah, where's Flipper to go get help when you need'em?

It could have been a very real possibility if a pod of killer whales happened across them right then. If killer whales kill whales, would that make them friend or foe to the Sea Shepards? They're a kind of whale, but evil whales...how do you figure that one out?
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post #1347 of 1454
6/26/11 at 1:05pm
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Originally Posted by Mr. Hanky View Post

It could have been a very real possibility if a pod of killer whales happened across them right then. If killer whales kill whales, would that make them friend or foe to the Sea Shepards? They're a kind of whale, but evil whales...how do you figure that one out?

There are much worse creatures they could have encountered:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U87zVkIXNI0
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post #1348 of 1454
7/22/11 at 10:06pm
Ruh Roh
http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-...-our-ship-1263
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post #1349 of 1454
7/23/11 at 6:52am
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I love it. Unfortunately they will not let me donate $0.01 dollars.
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post #1350 of 1454
7/23/11 at 7:07am
So they save tunas also? I thought they admitted to being fish eaters, and only "protecting" mammals.
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