Aust' charter aircraft spying on Sea Shepherd
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Whale is certainly not widely available in Japan. But one occasionally stumbles across it on the menu.... It's generally quite pricey.
I recently paid about AUD$20 for 8 small slices of whale "bacon"... mainly blubber, but it was delicious - it had a butter-like flavour.
I recently paid about AUD$20 for 8 small slices of whale "bacon"... mainly blubber, but it was delicious - it had a butter-like flavour.
From ABC news
"One of Tasmania's two main air charter companies, Tasair, has declined to comment on whether its planes or staff were involved in the flights.
Tasair managing director George Ashwood says that kind of information is commercial in confidence."
I guess that's a yes then?
"One of Tasmania's two main air charter companies, Tasair, has declined to comment on whether its planes or staff were involved in the flights.
Tasair managing director George Ashwood says that kind of information is commercial in confidence."
I guess that's a yes then?
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The Ady Gil is barely making knots in the video, until the last moment when you see the wake froth up. It certainly didn't appear that they placed themselves in front of the Japanese vessel, one would assume the sudden power increase came when they realized that collision was imminent.
At the start of the clip there is another vessel visible, it then appears the camera has been shot to the right perhaps to avoid making it obvious that the Japaneses vessel was turning to the right? Based on that video it looks like the Japanese were responsible for the collision, they certainly weren't forced into it.
At the start of the clip there is another vessel visible, it then appears the camera has been shot to the right perhaps to avoid making it obvious that the Japaneses vessel was turning to the right? Based on that video it looks like the Japanese were responsible for the collision, they certainly weren't forced into it.
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Folks, folks, come on...
The Japs aren't "eating" them, they're just chewing, swallowing, digesting and excreting the whale meat for scientific purposes!
Let's get the facts straight!
The Japs aren't "eating" them, they're just chewing, swallowing, digesting and excreting the whale meat for scientific purposes!
Let's get the facts straight!
Have a close look at the video in the Checkboard (#20) supplied link ABC News - Top Stories - Breaking news from Australia and the world at the end you can clearly see the wake of the Japanese ship shows a left turn away from the sea shepherd muppets....
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I do believe the Australian Antarctic Division are launching an aerial survey this summer in a bid to find Minke whales as their numbers have declined sharply in the last 2 yrs.
Before leaving, Ady Gil Captain Pete Behune said he was planning to take the fight right to the harpoon vessels.
"We will be on the fleet the whole time. Once we engage them, every day we'll be looking to mess them over,"
LOL, he "messed them over" alright... his own boat that is....
I wonder what the donor of the Ady Gil thinks of his boat being deliberately set up for destruction....
Anti-whaling protest boat Ady Gil holed after colliding with Japanese whalers in Southern Ocean | Herald Sun
"We will be on the fleet the whole time. Once we engage them, every day we'll be looking to mess them over,"
LOL, he "messed them over" alright... his own boat that is....
I wonder what the donor of the Ady Gil thinks of his boat being deliberately set up for destruction....
Anti-whaling protest boat Ady Gil holed after colliding with Japanese whalers in Southern Ocean | Herald Sun
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I might have missed it but who said the charters were being done in C404 or PA31 aircraft?
Tasair has a C441 and Directair also has such an aircraft.
Might be an interesting upshot to the collision as the same rules apply on sea as in the air - give way to the right.
Tasair has a C441 and Directair also has such an aircraft.
Might be an interesting upshot to the collision as the same rules apply on sea as in the air - give way to the right.
Heres the sea shepherd take -
The Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin left Hobart, Tasmania at 1800 Hours on December 31st, 2009 to return to the search in the Southern Ocean for the illegal operations of the Japanese whaling fleet.
The Steve Irwin had lost the tail of the Shonan Maru No. 2 when the Sea Shepherd crew returned to Tasmania. The Japanese were anxious to put that tail back on the anti-whaling ship knowing that a continued tracking of the Steve Irwin would keep the conservationists away from the whaling fleet.
The Japanese were desperate to not lose track of the Steve Irwin, so desperate that they appear to have fraudulently poised as New Zealand government agents in their efforts to find the Steve Irwin at sea.
On January 1st, 2010 two men, Glen Inwood and Chris Johnston from Omeka Communications located in Wellington, New Zealand chartered a Chieftain aircraft out of Melbourne. They identified themselves as acting on behalf of the government of New Zealand to track down and locate a New Zealand catamaran and the Steve Irwin on the pretext that if they (the Sea Shepherd ships) were to get in trouble it would cost the New Zealand government a great deal of money to rescue. They wanted the ships located and an estimate given of their track and speed.
The Chieftain aircraft undertook two four-hour searches. The searches failed to find the Steve Irwin. The Ady Gil, the Sea Shepherd catamaran, was fourteen hundred miles south so finding it was out of the question. It was the Steve Irwin they were looking for.
The two searches failed to find the Steve Irwin so Inwood and Johnston chartered a second Chieftain for another four hour flight. It also failed to spot the Steve Irwin.
Sitting at the 200-mile limit, the Japanese harpoon vessel Yushin Maru waited for word from the spotter planes to resume the tail on the Steve Irwin. It had been spotted and identified by a boat out of Hobart with a six-person crew identifying themselves as the Taz Patrol.
Meanwhile, the Steve Irwin had latched onto a passing storm and rode the winds and heavy rains across the Economic Exclusion Zone into international waters undetected.
The 12 hours of flight with the Chieftains at $1,610 an hour cost Glen Inwood $18,320. He put it on his personal credit card.
Was Glen Inwood a representative of the New Zealand government as he said?
No, Mr. Inwood owns Omeka Communications, the New Zealand public relations firm that represents the Japanese whaling industry.
It will be interesting to see if the New Zealand government has a problem with a Japanese hired public relations firm representing themselves as New Zealand government agents.
The end result was that the search was unsuccessful, the Steve Irwin is running south without a Japanese tail, the Yushin Maru is not whaling, and the whaling industry is out another $18 thousand dollars.
http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-...-100105-2.html
The Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin left Hobart, Tasmania at 1800 Hours on December 31st, 2009 to return to the search in the Southern Ocean for the illegal operations of the Japanese whaling fleet.
The Steve Irwin had lost the tail of the Shonan Maru No. 2 when the Sea Shepherd crew returned to Tasmania. The Japanese were anxious to put that tail back on the anti-whaling ship knowing that a continued tracking of the Steve Irwin would keep the conservationists away from the whaling fleet.
The Japanese were desperate to not lose track of the Steve Irwin, so desperate that they appear to have fraudulently poised as New Zealand government agents in their efforts to find the Steve Irwin at sea.
On January 1st, 2010 two men, Glen Inwood and Chris Johnston from Omeka Communications located in Wellington, New Zealand chartered a Chieftain aircraft out of Melbourne. They identified themselves as acting on behalf of the government of New Zealand to track down and locate a New Zealand catamaran and the Steve Irwin on the pretext that if they (the Sea Shepherd ships) were to get in trouble it would cost the New Zealand government a great deal of money to rescue. They wanted the ships located and an estimate given of their track and speed.
The Chieftain aircraft undertook two four-hour searches. The searches failed to find the Steve Irwin. The Ady Gil, the Sea Shepherd catamaran, was fourteen hundred miles south so finding it was out of the question. It was the Steve Irwin they were looking for.
The two searches failed to find the Steve Irwin so Inwood and Johnston chartered a second Chieftain for another four hour flight. It also failed to spot the Steve Irwin.
Sitting at the 200-mile limit, the Japanese harpoon vessel Yushin Maru waited for word from the spotter planes to resume the tail on the Steve Irwin. It had been spotted and identified by a boat out of Hobart with a six-person crew identifying themselves as the Taz Patrol.
Meanwhile, the Steve Irwin had latched onto a passing storm and rode the winds and heavy rains across the Economic Exclusion Zone into international waters undetected.
The 12 hours of flight with the Chieftains at $1,610 an hour cost Glen Inwood $18,320. He put it on his personal credit card.
Was Glen Inwood a representative of the New Zealand government as he said?
No, Mr. Inwood owns Omeka Communications, the New Zealand public relations firm that represents the Japanese whaling industry.
It will be interesting to see if the New Zealand government has a problem with a Japanese hired public relations firm representing themselves as New Zealand government agents.
The end result was that the search was unsuccessful, the Steve Irwin is running south without a Japanese tail, the Yushin Maru is not whaling, and the whaling industry is out another $18 thousand dollars.
http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-...-100105-2.html
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We eat cows/pigs/sheep/goats/roos/emus and the men and women from Nippon like seafood - what's the difference?
Whilst I don't condone whaling, there are plenty of food industries that are inhumane.
The media attention is similar difference between road and air crashes. Some stories the public respond to, some they don't.
For the record, I am not a Vegie.