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post #481 of 1454
8/17/09 at 2:02pm
Good Job SS. Unfortunately, doesnt look like it did much damage, and that video is roughly 6 months old.
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post #482 of 1454
8/17/09 at 2:29pm
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Originally Posted by jdailey23 View Post

Good Job SS. Unfortunately, doesnt look like it did much damage, and that video is roughly 6 months old.

Gotta remember, the season that's on the air right now took place last December/January. I'm sure we'll see that same event this Friday, but through the eyes of the SS'ers.

Would be cool if the producers got footage from the Japanese to put into the show, to help show their side.
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post #483 of 1454
8/17/09 at 3:39pm
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Originally Posted by taz291819 View Post

Gotta remember, the season that's on the air right now took place last December/January. I'm sure we'll see that same event this Friday, but through the eyes of the SS'ers.

Would be cool if the producers got footage from the Japanese to put into the show, to help show their side.

IIRC, the GPS shown on the bridge of the SI had a date of Feb 6 on the display.
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post #484 of 1454
8/17/09 at 4:37pm
A person from the SS crew is answering questions at this link.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comment...iewers_i_crew/
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post #485 of 1454
8/17/09 at 4:54pm
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Originally Posted by CPanther95 View Post

IIRC, the GPS shown on the bridge of the SI had a date of Feb 6 on the display.

You're right, went back and looked on the SS site at their press releases, it did end at the beginning of February.

As I said a couple days ago, the press releases are spoilers, though with only 1 episode left, don't think it's too big a deal.
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post #486 of 1454
8/17/09 at 5:03pm
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Originally Posted by gadianton View Post

A person from the SS crew is answering questions at this link.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comment...iewers_i_crew/

Good, and often funny read.

This was mentioned there and should make next season pretty damn interesting:
Earthrace Joins the Fleet


also mentioned is $500,000 worth of repairs and upgrades to the Steve Irwin, including the addition of a powerful water cannon.
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post #487 of 1454
8/17/09 at 5:43pm
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Originally Posted by CPanther95 View Post

Good, and often funny read.

This was mentioned there and should make next season pretty damn interesting:
Earthrace Joins the Fleet


also mentioned is $500,000 worth of repairs and upgrades to the Steve Irwin, including the addition of a powerful water cannon.

Holy Moly that boat is sexy.
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post #488 of 1454
8/17/09 at 5:44pm
They would be better served with a submarine vs. Earthrace.
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post #489 of 1454
8/17/09 at 5:52pm
Sweet ship. I'm looking forward to next season too. I hope their water cannon is more powerful than the Japs. And also they have stronger dishes for the LRAD.
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post #490 of 1454
8/17/09 at 5:55pm
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Originally Posted by mx6bfast View Post

Sweet ship. I'm looking forward to next season too. I hope their water cannon is more powerful than the Japs. And also they have stronger dishes for the LRAD.

They might have to use the same dishes till the contract expires. Then those people are so stupid they would probably get cable.
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post #491 of 1454
8/17/09 at 6:00pm
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also mentioned is $500,000 worth of repairs and upgrades to the Steve Irwin, including the addition of a powerful water cannon.

What they need is an Ice Rated Hull.
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post #492 of 1454
8/17/09 at 6:12pm
I'm glad they are stepping it up for next season. This is one of the most entertaining shows I've seen in a while. The SS seem pleased with the exposure they are getting. Unfortunately, I think they have probably polarized their opposition in Japan, and Japanese whaling won't end until the Japanese decide to end it.
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post #493 of 1454
8/17/09 at 8:40pm
Cool looking boot...but wouldnt a harpoon go right through it...doesnt look to "durable"
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post #494 of 1454
8/19/09 at 9:18am
Major spoiler for those that don't want to know anything about the season finale. Hopefully, this part will be shown. Note the SS spin - it's so false, it's comical:

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post #495 of 1454
8/19/09 at 10:02am
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Hopefully, this part will be shown. Note the SS spin - it's so false, it's comical...

We haven't seen the last episode, but "Andrew" needs to remember that most of what they were doing, and especially anything "bad" that the whalers did, was filmed for all to see. He needs to be careful about any "stories" he tells.
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post #496 of 1454
8/19/09 at 10:34am
Was there any doubt? seriously?
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post #497 of 1454
8/19/09 at 10:45am
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Cool looking boot...but wouldnt a harpoon go right through it...doesnt look to "durable"

If it does, we'll see this:

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post #498 of 1454
8/19/09 at 3:09pm
I wasn't aware that the whalers were able to ram the SI with their stern. Is that like moon walking on water?
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post #499 of 1454
8/20/09 at 8:40am
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I wasn't aware that the whalers were able to ram the SI with their stern. Is that like moon walking on water?

Typical SS media release.
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post #500 of 1454
8/21/09 at 8:11pm
I had to laugh when the capt did the interview after handing off control to the garbled-accent throttle guy and he proceeded to outrun the processing ship. Bravo!
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post #501 of 1454
8/22/09 at 5:01am
IMO, Watson should be locked up a long time. He often spoke of his intentions to ram their ship. It should be a slam dunk case against him. The sad thing is I bet the procedds from this show fund these terrorists/pirates.
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post #502 of 1454
8/22/09 at 6:20am
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Funny, I started out watching this show, completely against the Sea Shepherds and their tactics. But after watching them for 2 seasons, I find that I've developed a bit of empathy for them. Maybe it's a voyeuristic TV version of Stockholm Syndrome.

I also find that I'm really looking forward to the next season's show.
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post #503 of 1454
8/22/09 at 7:28am
The JP should now be able to treat them as pirates after they rammed there ship. That was a clear and malicious terrorist attack with an intent to harm. You can't say, I wanted to ram there ship but not hurt anyone. The SS crew is a bunch of dumb terrorist in my book and I loved how the feds were waiting for them when they docked! Even better were the looks of shock and surprise on the SS crews faces! IMO the JP have every right to protect there boats by any mean necessary after that incident. It is time for the JP fleet to get a military escort to take the Steve Irwin out (so sad that this idiot filled boat bears Steve's name). Best part of the show, the JP crews still got the whale on the main ship, even after the attack. There efforts did little to nothing to stop the JP, and that is the best part of the show.

Any sympathy towards the whales or the SS cause has been ruined by this show. I know most whale activist do not act in this manner but, this show has ruin any support that I may have had for them. I say to hell with them all if you are going to support these type of actions displayed by SS.
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post #504 of 1454
8/22/09 at 8:14am
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Originally Posted by rolltide1017 View Post

the jp should now be able to treat them as pirates after they rammed there ship. That was a clear and malicious terrorist attack with an intent to harm. You can't say, i wanted to ram there ship but not hurt anyone. The ss crew is a bunch of dumb terrorist in my book and i loved how the feds were waiting for them when they docked! Even better were the looks of shock and surprise on the ss crews faces! Imo the jp have every right to protect there boats by any mean necessary after that incident. It is time for the jp fleet to get a military escort to take the steve irwin out (so sad that this idiot filled boat bears steve's name). Best part of the show, the jp crews still got the whale on the main ship, even after the attack. There efforts did little to nothing to stop the jp, and that is the best part of the show.

Any sympathy towards the whales or the ss cause has been ruined by this show. I know most whale activist do not act in this manner but, this show has ruin any support that i may have had for them. I say to hell with them all if you are going to support these type of actions displayed by ss.

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post #505 of 1454
8/22/09 at 8:35am
What would be good for both the show, & the SS Public Relations, would be for Watson to give a "serious" speech to his Entire crew at the start of the journey, (on camera), listing the things the ship & crew can NEVER do, even in heat of seeing a whale being killed ...
Intentionally ramming another ship,
putting another crewmember in serious physical danger,
putting any Japanese deck personell in serious physical anger.
It would be made clear All crew would have the authority to abort anything that seems to fall into this definition.
He then would then list the things they can do .....

As a side note, if they indeed will have water cannons next season, I hope they figure out a way to shoot/spray the Buteric Acid thru those hoses ...
It seems that even diluted, it can still do damage, & will be able to "paint" large areas of the Japanese ships ...
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post #506 of 1454
8/22/09 at 8:42am
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Originally Posted by rolltide1017 View Post

The JP should now be able to treat them as pirates after they rammed there ship. That was a clear and malicious terrorist attack with an intent to harm. You can't say, I wanted to ram there ship but not hurt anyone. The SS crew is a bunch of dumb terrorist in my book and I loved how the feds were waiting for them when they docked! Even better were the looks of shock and surprise on the SS crews faces! IMO the JP have every right to protect there boats by any mean necessary after that incident. It is time for the JP fleet to get a military escort to take the Steve Irwin out (so sad that this idiot filled boat bears Steve's name). Best part of the show, the JP crews still got the whale on the main ship, even after the attack. There efforts did little to nothing to stop the JP, and that is the best part of the show.

Any sympathy towards the whales or the SS cause has been ruined by this show. I know most whale activist do not act in this manner but, this show has ruin any support that I may have had for them. I say to hell with them all if you are going to support these type of actions displayed by SS.

Some may look at it that way but many others will not. The one thing no one can argue about is that it has brought attention onto the JP and what they are doing down there whether you support the tactics used by the SS or not. With this show and all it's publicity, this is a win, win situation for Capt. Watson. You will not find too much sympathy in the world of animals lovers on the side of the JP's and I'm pretty sure that is the result they were hoping for.
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post #507 of 1454
8/22/09 at 9:24am
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Originally Posted by MeatChicken View Post

As a side note, if they indeed will have water cannons next season, I hope they figure out a way to shoot/spray the Buteric Acid thru those hoses ...
It seems that even diluted, it can still do damage, & will be able to "paint" large areas of the Japanese ships ...

Not likely they can add anything to the stream that wouldn't dilute to the point of being ineffective. The volume of water needed to get any kind of range is HUGE.
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post #508 of 1454
8/22/09 at 9:33am
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Some may look at it that way but many others will not. The one thing no one can argue about is that it has brought attention onto the JP and what they are doing down there whether you support the tactics used by the SS or not. With this show and all it's publicity, this is a win, win situation for Capt. Watson. You will not find too much sympathy in the world of animals lovers on the side of the JP's and I'm pretty sure that is the result they were hoping for.

That is probably true, so what we will get is even more idiots going to try and do something. The people on that ship are complete morons, they started cheering when they thought they stopped them from loading an already dead whale, just to see the ship get it loaded anyhow. Once again all they did was FAIL.

The finale showing was pretty good, I did like the text at the end telling about what happened and the amount of whales they didn't get to their quota etc etc. Its meaningless in the long run cause it didn't stop whaling and it may never. The Sea Shepherds should lose the flag, they were told no throwing off the ship and did it anyhow. They clearly rammed the ship no matter what they say, the whaling ship looked like it didn't move and the Steve Irwin turned towards the whaling ship.

I hope they get busted big time for the actions, but I have a feeling nothing is going to happen that's major. I am on the side of the whalers, the people on that ship to me are nothing but eco terrorists. I hope the Japanese next season step up with really bass a$$ stuff like guns with rubber bullets etc.
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post #509 of 1454
8/22/09 at 9:34am
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Originally Posted by Lodef View Post

Some may look at it that way but many others will not. The one thing no one can argue about is that it has brought attention onto the JP and what they are doing down there whether you support the tactics used by the SS or not. With this show and all it's publicity, this is a win, win situation for Capt. Watson. You will not find too much sympathy in the world of animals lovers on the side of the JP's and I'm pretty sure that is the result they were hoping for.

I think the influx of cash they are getting is a testament to how the show is benefiting Watson - probably more so personally, than for the cause.

History shows us that left unchecked, the Japanese would likely decimate the marine mammal population. But as long as they stick to species that are not endangered and keep to the quota established by the IWC - there's no reason to support terrorist activities against their citizens.

I still support keeping the whale population at sustainable levels over any country's individual right to hunt them indiscriminately. But since the IWC seems to be handling that aspect just fine, I see no way that I can support the terrorist activities of the SS and no way not to root for the sinking of the Steve Irwin.
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post #510 of 1454
8/22/09 at 9:43am
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Originally Posted by CPanther95 View Post

I think the influx of cash they are getting is a testament to how the show is benefiting Watson - probably more so personally, than for the cause.

History shows us that left unchecked, the Japanese would likely decimate the marine mammal population. But as long as they stick to species that are not endangered and keep to the quota established by the IWC - there's no reason to support terrorist activities against their citizens.

I still support keeping the whale population at sustainable levels over any country's individual right to hunt them indiscriminately. But since the IWC seems to be handling that aspect just fine, I see no way that I can support the terrorist activities of the SS and no way not to root for the sinking of the Steve Irwin.

I agree 100% well said.
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