WHALE WARS - the new Deadliest Catch/Ice Road Truckers?

[Cliff Huckable]

Looks pretty cool.
Damn Japanese - Let's get 'em!

WAR WHALES!!!

Starts this Friday, I think? Sometime soon...Animal Planet...

[iceman]

How do they get 'em to fight?

[Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo]

Looks pretty cool.
Damn Japanese - Let's get 'em!

WAR WHALES!!!

Starts this Friday, I think? Sometime soon...Animal Planet...

why do you hate the Japanese?? It really is a warzone out there..

[Adolf Allerbush]

Looks pretty cool.
Damn Japanese - Let's get 'em!

WAR WHALES!!!

Starts this Friday, I think? Sometime soon...Animal Planet...

This show is about a 9 on the unintentional comedy scale. A bunch of hippies who can't take direction from anyone trying to combat Japanese whaling vessels near Antarctica. I particularly enjoyed the episode where they attempt to launch a strike at dusk on a Japanese ship. The hippies all pile into a raft and they're off. It gets dark, they get lost and a shit show ensues. The dumbasses in the raft forget that they have a GPS and a SAT phone to figure out how to get back to the main boat. The hippies on the big ship end up contacting the Japanese boat they intended to attack for help finding their shipmates. Fucking classic.

[SchralphMacchio]

This show is about a 9 on the unintentional comedy scale. A bunch of hippies who can't take direction from anyone trying to combat Japanese whaling vessels near Antarctica. I particularly enjoyed the episode where they attempt to launch a strike at dusk on a Japanese ship. The hippies all pile into a raft and they're off. It gets dark, they get lost and a shit show ensues. The dumbasses in the raft forget that they have a GPS and a SAT phone to figure out how to get back to the main boat. The hippies on the big ship end up contacting the Japanese boat they intended to attack for help finding their shipmates. Fucking classic.

Holy shit that's hilarious. Sounds like some Berkeley undergrads I know.

[mc_roon]

i agree, 9/10 for unintentional comedy. Did you see the first episode where they flipped the zodiac when they were launching it? what about when they put a dent in the helicopter's blade.

My personal favorite was when they had two of their crew board the Japanese ship(an act of piracy), then immediately call all the news outlets and claim that the japanese were holding two of their crew hostage...fucking classic

the captain is a certifiable nutjob, too extreme for Greenpeace and comes off as a self righteous prick who sends others into harms way.

the opening clip of a whale getting harpooned is pretty cool too.

[Tuckerman]

One of the best shows on tv. I hope the show will bring them more money it looks like they need it. It appears that next week he (Irwin) is going to try to get some more ship boarders I can't wait. They need some more ideas on disabling a ship I think.

[VTskibum]

After watching the first few episodes, I'm now watching rooting for the Japanese. I wanted the Japanese to toss that guy off their boat when he jumped on board. Would have been 100% justified in doing so in my mind... afterall it's still piracy.

[glenplake]

Boarding the Japanese ship and then crying "hostage situation" had me :rofl:ing. The footage of these goons climbing aboard the Japanese ship is priceless. I'm surprised they didn't punch themselves in the face while on the ship to make it seem as if the Japs were torturing them.

I thought it was funny how the one Japanese 'spy' ship kept following them and then radio'ing their location. Then they try covert ops to try and sneak attack a giant ship and intimidate it. :rofl: The big Jap ship was all "i'm not touching you, you can't touch me". Seems like the hippies couldn't keep their cool.

What should be scary though is how brainwashed those people seem. It's like they have a mandate from god or something and are willing to do whatever it takes to get this done.

[somegeek]

One of the best shows on tv. I hope the show will bring them more money it looks like they need it. It appears that next week he (Irwin) is going to try to get some more ship boarders I can't wait. They need some more ideas on disabling a ship I think.

I enjoy the show. Think this was the same boat National Geographic did a story on a few years back. They've sunk some ships and damaged some. Pretty cool in my opinion.

[nick > jesus]

I would like this show if they condensed four episodes into one. as it is it moves so slow.

The whole thing seems like a weird loophole in the law, i would not say the whalers are morally right, but as it is, they are operating legally.

and fuck the captain, he seems like the biggest douche in the world. I was cracking up after in one episode he said "these groups that just take pictures are doing nothing, pictures are are worthless" then in the next episode "well ya know, photographs are really our greatest weapon" as a whole the sea Shepard operation appears to be very amateur

[blackhand]

the funniest part was definitely when they launch the zodiac to hide behind a glacier and ambush the japanese ship but the forget the phone so they haev to go back and think their ambush is going to fail and then all that happens is they ride next to the ship for a while and wave at the crew....

oh and also how they get an anonymous call about where the whaling fleet is but it was definitely the boat sent to follow them that called it in

[Douchebag Rutecki]

This show is about a 9 on the unintentional comedy scale. A bunch of hippies who can't take direction from anyone trying to combat Japanese whaling vessels near Antarctica. I particularly enjoyed the episode where they attempt to launch a strike at dusk on a Japanese ship. The hippies all pile into a raft and they're off. It gets dark, they get lost and a shit show ensues. The dumbasses in the raft forget that they have a GPS and a SAT phone to figure out how to get back to the main boat. The hippies on the big ship end up contacting the Japanese boat they intended to attack for help finding their shipmates. Fucking classic.

You had to be there, dude. It was fucking scary out there. But I wouldn't expect anyone as stupid as you to commit to such a worthy cause.

[squatch]

I would like this show if they condensed four episodes into one. as it is it moves so slow.

The whole thing seems like a weird loophole in the law, i would not say the whalers are morally right, but as it is, they are operating legally.

and fuck the captain, he seems like the biggest douche in the world. I was cracking up after in one episode he said "these groups that just take pictures are doing nothing, pictures are are worthless" then in the next episode "well ya know, photographs are really our greatest weapon" as a whole the sea Shepard operation appears to be very amateur

heh. i've only seen previews, but it appears that their primary weapon is water balloons.

i think they to grow a pair, buy a submarine from some ex-soviet bloc satellite, and actually do something. you know, just quit fucking around. either that or quit.

[nick > jesus]

heh. i've only seen previews, but it appears that their primary weapon is water balloons.

i think they to grow a pair, buy a submarine from some ex-soviet bloc satellite, and actually do something. you know, just quit fucking around. either that or quit.

stink bombs, they claim that they can make the deck bearable for three days, and they try to get shit tangled in the propeller.

over all, they are full of fail

[endoverender]

i definitely find myself rooting for the japanese. that captain paul character is a douche and a half. and his little lackeys running around doing his bidding are almost as hilarious.

my favorite quote: "the captain is too busy saving whales to deal with any of these people problems"

[GheePup]

I haven't seen this show yet. Judging from the above reviews maybe the hippies could use some pointers from the Somali pirates that have a fondness for hijacking oil tankers?

[Tuckerman]

They need a faster bigger boat. Nice of the Red Hot Chili Peppers to pony up $100,000. Eating endangered animals is kind of lame, no.

[72Twenty]

The navy they are not. That's for sure. I think it is cool what they are attempting to do, but it amazes me that a crew like that can even sail that far, much less attempt a mission.

[gg8983]

For season 2 I think Captain Sig from Deadliest Catch should go on the boat and get the hippies in line. He would toss the douchebag 2nd mate overboard in 4 seconds.

[Sparky]

Watson is an egotist and a nut-job, however I am on the whales side. Although I would concede that indigenous native tribal types are probably ok with a bit of subsistence whale hunting.

They need some more ideas on disabling a ship I think.

They had more balls back in the day!

1979
Sea Shepherd found the Sierra and chased it into the port of Leixoes. Captain Watson rammed the Sierra twice in harbor, tearing the hull open to the waterline and forcing the ship into port for repairs. After a million dollars of uninsured repairs, the Sierra was sunk by Sea Shepherd operatives in Lisbon harbor in Portugal on February 6, 1980. Sea Shepherd permanently retired the pirate whaler Sierra and prevented anymore whales from being taken by her.

1980
That same month, Sea Shepherd operatives sank two Spanish whalers in to the port of Vigo, Spain, (Ibsa I and Ibsa II)after Spain refused to comply with quota regulations on fin whales.

Also in 1980, working in cooperation with the government of South Africa, Sea Shepherd assisted in the seizure of the pirate whalers Susan and Theresa. The ships were taken out to sea and deliberately scuttled by the South African Navy.

Sea Shepherd successfully shut down all pirate whaling operations in the North Atlantic within a year after a dozen years of failure by the International Whaling Commission. The IWC has no enforcement division to insure its laws are upheld.

We had taken six whalers out of operation but lost the Sea Shepherd when it was taken from us by a judge without a hearing or a trial after he took a bribe from the Sierra's owners. To keep the Sea Shepherd from being converted to a whaler, Captain Watson scuttled his own ship in Leixoes harbor on the first day of January, 1980.

1986, Sea Shepherd engineers Rod Coronado and David Howitt arrived in Iceland and scuttled two of the four Icelandic whaling ships at dockside. They also destroyed the whale meat processing plant in Iceland.


Iceland vessels scuttled

1988
In January 1988, Captain Paul Watson flew to Iceland to accept responsibility for the sinking of the ships. The Icelandic government refused to lay charges because Iceland knew that a trial would expose their illegal operations.

The Sea Shepherd actions in Iceland permanently retired two of their whaling ships and cost the whaling company more money than they have been able to recover in 19 years. It was an economic defeat for the whale killers.


Before his quick exit, Sea Shepherd agent managed to
snap a picture of the sea-cock he just opened to sink the
illegal vessel in port.

1992
In 1992, Sea Shepherd focused its efforts on opposing illegal commercial whaling by Norway. The day after Christmas, a Sea Shepherd crew led by Captain Paul Watson sank the illegally-operated Norwegian whaler Nybraena in the Lofoten Islands in Northern Norway.

1994
In January 1994, a Sea Shepherd crew scuttled the illegal Norwegian whaler Senet in harbor in Southern Norway.

The Whales Forever was rammed by the Norwegian destroyer Andenes, fired upon, and had two depth charges deployed under the hull. Although suffering significant damage, the Whales Forever prevented the Norwegians from boarding and returned to the Shetland Islands having severely embarrassed the Norwegian authorities. More importantly, international media attention was brought to bear on the illegality of Norwegian whaling.

1998
In 1998, the illegal Norwegian whaler Morild, owned by the most notorious whale killer in Norway - Stienar Bastesen - was sunk.

[Tuckerman]

Watson is an egotist and a nut-job, however I am on the whales side. Although I would concede that indigenous native tribal types are probably ok with a bit of subsistence whale hunting.





They had more balls back in the day!

1979
Sea Shepherd found the Sierra and chased it into the port of Leixoes. Captain Watson rammed the Sierra twice in harbor, tearing the hull open to the waterline and forcing the ship into port for repairs. After a million dollars of uninsured repairs, the Sierra was sunk by Sea Shepherd operatives in Lisbon harbor in Portugal on February 6, 1980. Sea Shepherd permanently retired the pirate whaler Sierra and prevented anymore whales from being taken by her.

1980
That same month, Sea Shepherd operatives sank two Spanish whalers in to the port of Vigo, Spain, (Ibsa I and Ibsa II)after Spain refused to comply with quota regulations on fin whales.

Also in 1980, working in cooperation with the government of South Africa, Sea Shepherd assisted in the seizure of the pirate whalers Susan and Theresa. The ships were taken out to sea and deliberately scuttled by the South African Navy.

Sea Shepherd successfully shut down all pirate whaling operations in the North Atlantic within a year after a dozen years of failure by the International Whaling Commission. The IWC has no enforcement division to insure its laws are upheld.

We had taken six whalers out of operation but lost the Sea Shepherd when it was taken from us by a judge without a hearing or a trial after he took a bribe from the Sierra's owners. To keep the Sea Shepherd from being converted to a whaler, Captain Watson scuttled his own ship in Leixoes harbor on the first day of January, 1980.

1986, Sea Shepherd engineers Rod Coronado and David Howitt arrived in Iceland and scuttled two of the four Icelandic whaling ships at dockside. They also destroyed the whale meat processing plant in Iceland.


Iceland vessels scuttled

1988
In January 1988, Captain Paul Watson flew to Iceland to accept responsibility for the sinking of the ships. The Icelandic government refused to lay charges because Iceland knew that a trial would expose their illegal operations.

The Sea Shepherd actions in Iceland permanently retired two of their whaling ships and cost the whaling company more money than they have been able to recover in 19 years. It was an economic defeat for the whale killers.


Before his quick exit, Sea Shepherd agent managed to
snap a picture of the sea-cock he just opened to sink the
illegal vessel in port.

1992
In 1992, Sea Shepherd focused its efforts on opposing illegal commercial whaling by Norway. The day after Christmas, a Sea Shepherd crew led by Captain Paul Watson sank the illegally-operated Norwegian whaler Nybraena in the Lofoten Islands in Northern Norway.

1994
In January 1994, a Sea Shepherd crew scuttled the illegal Norwegian whaler Senet in harbor in Southern Norway.

The Whales Forever was rammed by the Norwegian destroyer Andenes, fired upon, and had two depth charges deployed under the hull. Although suffering significant damage, the Whales Forever prevented the Norwegians from boarding and returned to the Shetland Islands having severely embarrassed the Norwegian authorities. More importantly, international media attention was brought to bear on the illegality of Norwegian whaling.

1998
In 1998, the illegal Norwegian whaler Morild, owned by the most notorious whale killer in Norway - Stienar Bastesen - was sunk.

Now thats what I want to watch. Arrrrr

[nick > jesus]

that would be way more exciting

[ak_powder_monkey]

I prefer watching nondouchebag hippies on TV thanks very much

[72Twenty]

I prefer watching nondouchebag hippies on TV thanks very much

There is such a thing as a nondouchebag hippie?