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They also bought LRads which was a good move on the japs part.

Medical Implications of Physical Attacks on the Sea Shepherd Crew by the Japanese Whalers.

Report by Dr. David
Ship's Medical Officer - Steve Irwin

During the engagements between the Sea Shepherd crew and the Japanese whaling fleet I witnessed first hand the attacks on our crew by three methods.

  1. Water Cannons: Long range, high powered water hoses with enough pressure to break bones and cause severe soft tissue injury were aimed at individual crewmembers both in the small boats and onboard the Steve Irwin. One crewmember, a cameraman was hit in the face violently knocking him backwards off his seat and onto the deck of the small boat. He sustained a bleeding abrasion to the inner aspect of one eye and soft tissue bruising to his neck and lower back. In my opinion if the force had been taken in the middle part of his eye he would have sustained permanent eye damage. Another crewmember was knocked off his feet onboard the Steve Irwin. He also sustained soft tissue bruising and the risk of being knocked overboard and dying of hypothermia is a real risk in these waters where the survival time is measured in minutes.
  2. Throwing of heavy metal objects & other items including nuts and bolts and golf balls was deployed a number of times specifically at crew members. Numerous abrasions & bruises resulted to crewmembers. Facial bone fractures and eye damage was a very real possibility.
  3. Use of Long Range Acoustical Device (LRAD). This device transmits high decibel output up to 163 decibels. High and low frequency tones to distances beyond 500 metres. This device was aimed at Sea Shepherd crew while in the air in our helicopter and at crew in the small boats and onboard the Steve Irwin. High frequency tones were severely distracting with inner ear and balance affects. Crewmembers reported feeling temporary disorientation and balance problems. Low frequency tones can apparently cause significant nervous system affects. The affects of this device on individuals operating helicopters, small boats and the Steve Irwin are very severe. LRAD blasts were aimed at close quarters at the bridge of the Steve Irwin at the time of two separate collision incidents.

I am deeply disturbed by the unprovoked attacks against Sea Shepherd crew. We were extremely fortunate that no severe injuries occurred.

I urge the Australian government to call on the Japanese government to assure that such attacks do not occur in the future.

Later on this campaign, in an effort to bring one of the sealing ship's operations to a halt, Watson handcuffed himself to a pile of seal pelts that were attached to the winch of a sealing vessel. When the sealers saw what he had done, they dragged him and the pile of pelts across the ice then up into the air, slamming them against the hull of the ship. Then they plunged Watson into the frigid waters several times causing him to lose feeling in his limbs and lose consciousness. Finally, when Fisheries Minister officers arrived on the scene, he was strapped to a stretcher and hoisted onboard, where the sealers almost suffocated him by pressing seal blubber over his face, then dragging him across the deck through seal fat and blood, kicking him all along the way.

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On their blog they're bitching about the LRads being used on them while they were intentionally ramming another ship.  



You have to be a special kind of delusional to claim that the defensive measures taken by another ship while you are trying to ram them were unprovoked attacks.  
I swear the japs could toss the exact same butter bomb things back at the SS and they'd still bitch that the japs were unnecessarily escalating the conflict.

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May I link the site for you?  They are looking for people to join their cause!  Who's going to take the challenge?

Sea Shepherd Crew

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Let me try to explain it to you then…



First, a couple of facts.



“Whales” are a very diverse group of species. Different species of whales have different habitats, different feeding habits, different intelligence levels, different everything. They are at least as a diverse a group as primates are.



“International Law” isn’t created by some kind of world legislature. It’s simply a collection of treaties which nations voluntarily agree to follow and a declaration of force where some nations say they will use their military and police powers in a certain way.



Several decades ago, certain species of whales were being hunted to extinction by the whaling industry. There was an agreement to limit whaling by several nations, including Japan. The problem is that the Japanese government couldn’t agree to an outright ban on whaling due to the political realities back home. And, the anti-whaling nations couldn’t allow blatant exceptions due to the political realities in their nations. So, the Japanese were allowed to harvest a certain number of a certain kind of whale for “research.” According to the treaty the meat had to be sold in Japan for food. This compromise (aka “lie”) was what made the treaty possible.



The Japanese whalers are not hunting endangered whales. While many whale species are endangered, the ones the Japanese are hunting are quite common. The Japanese are not taking those whales in numbers that could ever endanger them either. The Japanese whaling is completely sustainable.



Remember the Japanese are voluntarily restricting their whaling. The only “law” against whaling is a treaty that they could abrogate at will. Then they could, if they wanted, go on to slaughter every single whale in the ocean. And Captain Dumbfuck of the “Good Ship Lollypop” is creating problems that could cause the Japanese to simply start ignoring the treaty.



All of the “extinction” crap you get on that show is just that, a load of crap.



I guess you can make a moral argument that hunting this particular species of whale is wrong because the whale is so intelligent… except I don’t know that this species of whale is any smarter than cattle. I don’t know that they aren’t either. But just because one species of whale is fairly bright doesn’t mean that all whales are.



Remember, the pirate hippies (or is it hippie pirates) are vegans. They don’t think you should eat a steak either and if they could get away with it they would go ramming trucks into Burger King to shut them down too.

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I'm surprised the dumbasses haven't been shot yet.

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Oh, but the Captian guy was shot.  A Japanese sniper shot him from one sailing ship to the other sailing ship at several hunded meters directly in the heart.  

Thank God he was wearing his bullet proof vest.  

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What they do on that show is PIRACY...  I am quite surprised nobody on here has made note of that fact yet.  They go out and BOARD and ATTACK foreign vessels in an attempt to get them to stop whaling.  What really needs to happen is one of those whaling ship's crew needs to repel boarders at all costs, and maybe the "Steve Irwin" will get the hint.

On a side note, what a way to really "honor" Steve Irwin's name...  A bunch of douchebag tree huggers going out and committing international crimes...

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I swear to ARFCOM, that if I win the lottery, I will buy a ship, name it "The good ship Stingray" and harass the Sea Sheppard assholes to no end.

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I swear to ARFCOM, that if I win the lottery, I will buy a ship, name it "The good ship Stingray" and harass the Sea Sheppard assholes to no end.

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I swear to ARFCOM, that if I win the lottery, I will buy a ship, name it "The good ship Stingray" and harass the Sea Sheppard assholes to no end.

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Can we sail near the Horn of Africa afterward?

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Yup, hippies then skinnies.

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Yup, hippies then skinnies.

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Wouldn't it be easier to stake out several ports in AUS and drink beer until the ship arrives.  After they berth board with some thermite and melt holes through the engines, hull, and fuel tanks?

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The French know how to deal with filthy hippies.

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Wouldn't it be easier to stake out several ports in AUS and drink beer until the ship arrives.  After they berth board with some thermite and melt holes through the engines, hull, and fuel tanks?

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I swear to ARFCOM, that if I win the lottery, I will buy a ship, name it "The good ship Stingray" and harass the Sea Sheppard assholes to no end.

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No, because then they would just cry and get a new ship donated.

I want to torment them. Follow them around throwing CS grenades on their decks, spraying OC spray at them from fire hoses, eating whale burgers on deck while they watch, burning tons of styrofoam cups on deck, dumping all our empty beer bottles into the sea.

I want to do to them what they do to the japanese sailors, only worse.

Finally, I want to find a way to trick a killer whale into eating them, alive if possible.

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Yup, hippies then skinnies.

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Ensign VTHOKIESHOOTER asking permission to come aboard.