Whale Wars-The weekly documentary “Whale Wars”, featuring Paul Watson, as the captain of the crew ‘Sea Shepherd’ is now not alone in his venture to stop whale hunters. MV Steve Irwin, the ship used by the ‘Sea Shepherd Conservative Society’, is now being joined by a “tri-hull wave peircer”, 78 feet in length and having the capability of diving 23 feet under water- New Zealand’s Earthrace. Earthrace will be used to block the explosive harpoons used by the Japanese ships while whale hunting, says Paul Watson, since the worst way for a whale to die is by a harpoon exploding inside it.
Earlier, Captain Watson’s Sea Shepherd Conservative Society, was suppose to send two ships to stop the Japs hunt whales, when the Japs had chosen to venture in Australia’s waters for their whale hunt [which takes place annually]. Watson had also claimed that this year around 1000 whales would be taken out by the Japanese ships. He went on to cite the ruling done by an Australian court, that had thrown out a Jap ship out of the Australian Antarctic waters, because it was hunting whales illegally.
“Whale Wars” has tried to deter the Japs from hunting the whales from the day it premiered on Animal Planet, on 7th November, 2008. They have completed two seasons successfully, stopping the Japanese killing mink and fin whales from the Antarctic coast. For their next season, they had promised to get more than one ship: apparently Earthrace will be the one. Watson has said, “This year we’ll have new and improved tactics. We’ll be down there with two or three vessels and a new way of delivering what we want to throw.”
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