Let me start out by saying this: I love animals. The last thing I want to see is a bunch of whales getting hunted. I dont like poachers, and I hope they all burn in hell.
Having said that, I just have to say how much I dislike the show Whale Wars. Its about a guy and his crew who go sailing around chasing after Japanese whaling boats. I had never watched it until last week, and after watching one episode, I will never watch it again, or say anything supportive.
My problem is this: when they come upon the whaling ships, they send out some of the crew in smaller boats. This crew then tries to disable the Japanese boats by either trying to break their motor or by throwing glass bottles full of chemicals onto the deck of the whaling boat. So here’s my thing:
I was watching, and one of these boats pulls up alongside the Japanese boat, and the guy begins chucking glass bottles of chemicals at the boat. So the Japanese use water cannons to try and protect themselves. One guy gets hit in the fact full blast with the water, and then they all start bitching. They are like, “see, this is what we mean. These guys are attacking us with water causing us bodily harm.” They play it off like the Japanese are these bloodthirsty evil pirates or something.
Are the Japanese whalers doing something illegal? Sure they are, they are poaching whales. Are the Whale Wars people doing something illegal? They sure as hell are: THEY ARE CHUCKING GLASS BOTTLES FULL OF UNKNOWN CHEMICALS AT THESE SHIPS!!! And then when the Japanese defend themselves with water, the Whale Wars people cry and whine.
Not for nothing, but I would rather get hit with a high pressure blast of water (which would hurt) rather than a glass jar filled with God knows what. The Japanese are whaling because its their livelyhood, just like gangsters and pirates. People need to make a living, and some choose to provide for their families through illegal means. I dont think they are right, but I gotta say that if I chose an illegal profession in which to provide for my loved ones, I sure as hell am going to do my best to protect myself and my business.
I think the thing that got me the most pissed off was that the Whale Wars folks try and come off as this righteous do-gooder group, and they are not. They are just as violent as the whalers. Plus they probably bitch more than the whalers do. I think the whalers are wrong for whaling, but I also think the Whale Wars crew is wrong for violently attacking the whalers, and then complaining when they retaliate.
‘Nuff said.
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Well said.! When the whalers threw brass nuts and bolts(indiscriminately) at the small craft they claimed the Japanese were throwing at their heads trying to hurt them. I hate when people embellish like that. They might as well yelled “hey, what if there were childen and very old dieing people on board”!
Both sides are wrong. The Japanese are lying pukes for slaughtering whales for profit while saying they are doing research and the knuckleheads are out there putting theirs and other peoples lives in danger. They paint themselves as poor victims (while most of their injuries are self inflicted) if they hit a sailor in the head with one of those bottles he’s going down, or worse.
I for one disagree. I think those dirty whale poachers get what they deserve. An Eye for an eye. How dare they Kill those innocent delicious creatures for personal gain. The Whale Wars Guys have full rights to retaliate. My only complaint is that they are not dedicated enough. They should be throwing bottles of napalm, and sneaking on board and cutting off peoples heads while they sleep. That’s how we take care of bastards like that.
I disagree with you,
First off, Its not “UNKNOWN” chemicals … they throw butyric acid on to the deck. The acid is harmless but stinks horribly and is supposed to taint any whale meat on the deck. They also throw a substance like flour on to the deck that is supposed to be really slippery and difficult to wash off the deck.
Second, They don’t intend on hurting anyone when throwing the acid or flour substance … its to stop them from their job. Now throwing metal nuts directly at someone is a little different…
Third, DO SOME DAMN RESEARCH BEFORE YOU POST A HALF ASS ATTEMPT TO SAY THESE PEOPLE ARE JUST LIKE THE WHALERS …. IDIOT
Are you kidding me? First, the acid is in a glass bottle. Secondly, the whaling ships are very large and tall, while the Whale Wars crew is in one of the small motor boats. My point is that when they chuck those bottles, they cant see if someone is on the deck because its so high up. So it is very probable that some whaler is going to get hit in the head with one of the glass jars, and that would hurt A HELL OF A LOT MORE than getting hit with nuts and bolts.
And the sad part is this…we would have no idea. Theres no reality show called “Whalers”, which follows what these guys are doing. They are not going to go to the news and say “look at what those Whale Wars nuts did to Wan Yu”…we will never know what the direct damage is that the Whale Wars guys do.
I still feel that they are similar to the whalers. Both groups are performing illegal activities. And I hate to break it to you, but the whalers are humans too…just because they perform a task that is considered illegal across the majority of the international community does not mean they should have their lives risked by the likes of untrained tree huggers.
If anything, the regulation and enforcement of whalers should be done by the government, more specifically, the military. If the government really cared about the whale population, they would have an international navy that patrolled areas of the ocean known for whaling. A trained military will be a better deterrent than a research vessel filled with civilians.
I think the Whale Wars group is awful and should be put to death. The japaese folks are doing their job is is NOT illegal to hunt whales for research and even though the crew pumps your heads full of propaganda about how they are lying you can’t know for sure. They are inhibiting people from doing their jobs and making it unsafe. To JP throwing things to make a deck slippery can be deadly when the water is freezing cold outside your ship. I think the japanese should shoot every single one of those stupid whale war crew.
fuck animal planet for giving these tree hugging hippies a show. theres no proof the whalers are poachin in illegal waters. that’s just what the hippies say. they are capable of lying dontcha know? the show won’t last..eventually the japanese will get fed up and take legal action. if I was a whaler I woulda popped thatass fatass paul to send a message to the other hippies…back the fuck up!
We all got difference of opinion, well everytime the Whale war people did something to the Japanese fleet they all get hurt. Thats the funny thing why risk your life for a whale. Its all blown out of context. If i was the whalers and you trow glass bottles at me, i will protect my self. They are both wrong for what they do. It should be a legal system that should come in and put both sides out. Its all bullshit if you ask me. Fuck the Sea Shepherds and the whalers. Theres a better way do deal with this matter and no lifes have to be put in danger.
I guess what they are doing is noble and all but being prepared to die for whales? Cut me a break.
The crew seems to be a bunch of incompetents. I’ve never seen so many expensive and deadly screw ups in my life. I guess the Captain puts up with it because he can’t find other vegans willing to give their life for a bunch of whales that are being legally hunted.
The Captain to me is a skeevy, conniving dirtbag to me. He admittedly tricks these young men and women into putting themselves in dangerous situations and if they have hesitations he questions their committment to this hopeless, stupid, lost cause.
Y’all need to calm down! Those incompetent cry babies need to stop the crap. They are the aggressors and the Japanese are defending themselves non-lethally. They can’t even throw glass bottles, or drop a rope in the water properly. They are impotent!
I will show them all !!!
I will trick these sissy girls that I am a god, and I will finally stop being a virgin!
I am a psychopathic narcissist who needs to stop looking like a whale myself and get my teeth fixed!
-Paul
Captain Sea Shepard
Flaccid Protector of Whales
i think this captian paul and his band of fags and misfits should be made to clean a the whales the japs can get next
season.
if we ever seen a bunch of no good s.o.b.s in my life. captian
paul and the other should be shoot draged and then beaten to about death let heal up for a day or two and done all over again untill they find something worth giving a care about like children old folks or even street repair i do agree that a story from the japanese side would be a hole lot more benafical than this crappy show
get a life
This is their lively hood?? You are all a bunch of tards. You know 75% of that meat goes to DOG FOOD. Their is over 5,000 TONS of Whale meat stockpiled in Japan, THAT NOONE DESIRES TO EAT. Japanese do not want this anymore. The only Japs that want this are the ones making millions off their lives. Similar to those who race horses. It’s all about the $$$ for most people. No care for how much you hurt an animal.
Why don’t they do “Pirate Wars”? These tree huggers devalue human live and that make me sick! It is obvious the Japanese are skirting international law with the facet in the name of research and then sell the meat and claim “waste not”. This doesn’t deminis the fact that the Sea Shepard or Steve Irwan put their crew and the crew of others into grave danger in more dangerous sea of the southern oceans. BTW, how big is the Australian territorial waters?
A VERY WISE QUOTE,”TWO WRONG DOSEN’T MAKE ONE RIGHT”!
ANIMAL PLANET IS LAUGHING WITH ALL THE MONEY TO THE BANK, STUPID PEOPLE(US)!
Vigilanty is primitive and is against most developed western democracies’ law…, if the Japanese were to wage legal action, these tree hugger will lose big time! Endangering human life is consider in the high sea violates all international maritime laws. Doesn’t these act also consider terrorist acts???
How is it that Eskimo are allow in whale hunting but not the Japanese? Isn’t this the same principles? Granted, Japanese population is much bigger than the Eskimos but whats good for the goose is good for the gander…..
I am firmly against the poaching, hunting, and slaughtering of whales, however the show Whale Wars is a horrible way to get support for the effort. I haven’t seen a more useless team since last year’s Detroit Lions in the NFL. I’d be suprised if they could swim, it looks like they spent more time crying than anything. I think if they would have put the nose of their ship 100 yds from the processing ship and stuck to their ass, like a wet swim suit when ur taking a shit, they would have been able to slow if not stop the operation without endangering human life or equipment.
Those japs annoy me too, a big cover up to kill whales that could be extinct within the end of the century. Why not go make a universal remote control that works, or a robot that can kick themselves in the balls. They should just go sit on their water cannons until they get home, and drift in those annoying pieces of sh*T they consider cars. If they don’t like it i don’t care….remember… we won the war. USA.
Whale Wars is bound for a real climax when some of these incompetent lunatics are seriously hurt. They can’t launch a boat,chase into a head sea in a RIB, high speed, chasing a whaling ship, lose sight of the mothership.. NUTS!!! So far very lucky.. That the only reason I watch, is to wait for an episode depicting” war is hell “and not a protest game. These tree huuging nuts have been very,very,lucky. Commander Captain Fats is in a fantasy world, his crew is NOT a US Navy Seal Team.
After finally seeing a couple of episodes of Whale Wars, they have become my new most hated group. They are ill experienced seamen who do not know what they are doing. Paul Watson is a horrible captain who cannot pilot his ship correctly, who intentionally endangers his crew and anyone else on the seas, he is a liar, manipulator, and never gets anything done except cause more harm than good.
I still cannot get over when he rammed the Japanese ship in the last episode, and tried to say it was the Japanese fault for using acoustic weapons which cannot be confirmed. Also, you could clearly see him turn fully into the ship and then stay on the ship for a good 15 seconds until he said to let off. When they got off, everyone cheered and called it good piloting. They’re idiotic.
The butyric acid in the bottles may not cause direct harm but it can disorientate the crew of the Japanese ship. Also, these bottles explode on impact sending glass everywhere. The flower they throw to make the deck slippery can be very harmful. The decks are bad enough with constant water getting on it.
One last thing. Throwing acid, flower, ramming ships, and as seen on one episode, just waving at the Japanese is not going to do a thing. If they actually want to be taken serious and get something done. Then they should take a more political and lawful approach.
I am a commercial fisherman from Kodiak Alaska. I think that killing whales is horrendous, but this show is fucking ridiculous and hilarious. The entire crew is a bunch of incompetent childish idiots. Once the whale is killed why the fuck would you try to destroy that meat? They will just catch another and another and another. Once you kill something use it, eat it, whatever or its just a total fucking waste.
God I can not believe these idiots. Who is paying for all that diesel, food, and supplies that these idiots are using?
I suggest to the crew to actually do something about whaling; instead of paying all that money for fuel and what not hire a fucking lawyer, create a PR campaign and lobby the fuck out of Japan. Or maybe just get a freaking real job!
It sounds a little harsh but how bad ass was it when that japanese guy shot the harpoon at that whale?
I don’t buy Japanese cars, eat sushi and I think whales are pretty neat. But whenever I watch Whale wars and Cap’n. Watson I find myself thanking God I’m not a braindead member of his crew. They paint everything black , have all kinds of pirate symbols and I suppose they drink grog and call the females wenches. I keep thinking of ways the Japanese can harass or destroy these cretins; harpoon the inflatables, snag the big ropes with a hook in the front… and certainly when anyone comes aboard return them promptly to the freezing sea.
I dislike this show too. I grow up Japan with eating Whale meat. We didn’t have beef or pork that time. Chicken was pretty rare if we had. Japan is Island. Whale meat WAS one of our nutrition. We have beef & pork, chiken meet at market right now but some people still eat whale meat just like american people eat deer, rabbit.
We’re Japanese have right to catch Whale limited season just like america’s hunting season.
I really don’t understand why those people act like we’re violent people. I would say how about ” Turkey war?” we don’t eat Turkey. I like Whale for just watching. They are beautiful. I like pig and cow too. but we eat. What is good to eat or not, we raised diffarent country, culture, so, it is diffarent. We don’t eat moose, deer, Elk, etc like some american does. but we’re japanese ever said anything about that? not.
Oh, I also wonder that Japanese Whale fisher men’s may thinking attacked by pirate….that why they might fighting back..Did you ever think like that??? if I’m one of them, I would fight back too because I don’t want be captured by pirate…
August 31, 2010 at 8:33 pm
I dislike this show too. I grow up Japan with eating Whale meat. We didn’t have beef or pork that time. Chicken was pretty rare if we had. Japan is Island. Whale meat WAS one of our nutrition. We have beef & pork, chiken meet at market right now but some people still eat whale meat just like american people eat deer, rabbit.
We’re Japanese have right to catch Whale LIMITED number for a year, NOT illegal just like america’s hunting season.
I really don’t understand why those people act like we’re violent evil people. makes look like Japanease are Devi. That kind staff makes war in this world. I would say how about ” Turkey war? Moose war?” we don’t eat Turkey,Moose . I like Whale for just watching. They are beautiful. I like pig and cow too. but we eat. What is good to eat or not, we raised diffarent country, culture, so, it is diffarent. We don’t eat moose, deer, Elk, etc like some american does. but we’re japanese ever said anything about that? not.!!
Seriously this show blows and not from a blowhole either.
Incompetence abounds their grasp of no harmful tactics is equally retarded. The following info regarding butyric acid is straight from the MsDs data sheet:
Harmful if swallowed or inhaled. Corrosive. Extremely unpleasant smell may cause nausea. Liquid may burn skin and eyes. Readily absorbed through the skin. Severe skin, eye and respiratory irritant.
Imagine getting glass covered in this shit stuck in your leg. Not as non lethal and harmless as they play it of to be. Yet they whine and bitch about water cannons and LRAD’s which although sting are entirely non lethal.
One good EMP pulse and it’s whaling ship down for the count. Law enforcement is already testing this method to disable anything electronic in a 50ft radius and triggered via radio signal.
Surely the whale wars assholes receive enough donations from unwitting donors to afford an EMP pulse generator that can be triggered remotely from an unmanned RC dinghy or submersible.
Granted it’s a one shot deal but one shot is all you need to fry the whaling ships electrical, sonar, and gps, systems without tossing toxic shit all over the place.
This show is so fuckin stupid and pointless. These dumb ass crew members aren’t doing a damn thing but causing problems for human life. They honestly believe there petaly bottle throwing and ramming ships is gona change things… very ignorant.. This isn’t whail wars,it’s simply done because they have never stood for anything that means shit in there lifes, so they compensate with a little boring adrenaline rush and call it noble.. hahahah…. what a joke. I’ll tell you guys what, no matter what we say on this blog people are gona watch the show sooo. .. what better than to add a twist to this show for people that cant stand these fucks.. ill get a bunch of ex marines of mine together start a private security business and every time the sea shepard trys to intercept a japanese ship here we come better armed and a hell of alot better trained with no problem putting there noses in the deck and embarrassing them all the way back home.. Now that would be fun to watch. I’ll take donations or an invester to make this happen, swear to god.
p.s Iam not saying the japanes are right or wrong but there not trying to hurt anyone. It’s just the ignorant sea shepard crew needs to be put in there place. the law can eventually take care of the poachers… Let me know if any investors come along and enjoy this idea, I know theres money to made in it atleast.
It is the most stupid show I have ever seen.
My opinion on this show is they are doing more harm then good, I mean the Sea Sheppards are basically committing acts of piracy. I only started watching the first season and am currently watching Episode 3. So far my opinion of this show is not very good and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. So far they basically illegally boarded a ship, whether to deliver a message or not its illegal to board a ship without permission, instead of going to retrieve the 2 crew they handed over to the Japanese, they see the whaling ship and decide to do another attack and lose the Delta with a full crew on board, really? I find the Captain, First and Second mates very incompetent. They hire on these crews, which I am assuming, none of them have any sea or ship training. Everything they do is endangering their own lives and doesn’t seem to be very effective. Anyways, I’m done with the organization and their lame attempts. I don’t agree with whaling, but really, the Japanese aren’t doing anything illegal according to world laws regarding whaling.The whale sanctuary isn’t recognized by all countries, so to say the Japanese are breaking the law isn’t exactly true. We all know they aren’t researching and they are just cutting them up and selling them. Also, there is a quota of 1000 whales to be killed, how many whales do you need to kill to do research? But yeah, its the way the world is and it will not end anytime soon. Its just the way things go and you can harass the whalers, but in the end, they’ll just keep on doing what they are doing because the “law is on their side”.
All life on earth is to benefit man, we are allowed to do what ever we please in regards to animals. I am only waiting for those hippies to get killed in action lol