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...Each side blames the other. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which owns the Ady Gil and other ships devoted to disrupting Japan's ongoing whaling efforts, said in a statement that the space-age speedboat was "dead in the water" when the Japanese ship, the Shonan Maru No. 2, rammed it. Peter Hammarstedt, the first officer of the Bob Barker, a sister ship of the Ady Gil named after the former Price Is Right host and donor, says that five of the six Ady Gil crew members were on deck waving to the Bob Barker when the whaling ship...
...attempting to entangle the Shonan Maru's rudder with a large rope. The actions, says the ICR, are "nothing but felonious behavior." The Japanese Fishing Agency also released a statement saying that it is "extremely dangerous to threaten vessels and its crew" and that Sea Shepherd's actions are "absolutely unforgivable...
...underscores how the annual whaling-activist conflict has escalated as both sides acquire new technology. The Ady Gil, a carbon-fiber ship worth about $1.5 million, has an uncanny resemblance to the Batmobile and holds the world record for circumnavigating the globe in only 61 days. Sea Shepherd was able to purchase the celebrated speedboat, previously called the Earthrace, after Hollywood businessman Ady Gil donated $1 million. Japan accuses its activist crew of shooting dangerous, high-powered lasers at its crews. Sea Shepherd, on the other hand, says the crew has been shot at with sonic guns and water cannon...
...more than three decades, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has rammed, sabotaged and shot stink bombs at whalers and commercial fishermen. Watson founded Sea Shepherd's forerunner Earth Force Society in 1977, and since then, he and his organization have not shied away from controversy. He has attacked Greenpeace, an organization he also helped found, calling the group "the Avon Ladies of the environmental movement" because of their allegedly wimpy tactics. Over the years, Watson has come under firearms attack four times, according to his website. In a 2008 Whale Wars episode that some critics have said was faked, Watson...
...remains to be determined who is really at fault in this week's incident, but one thing is sure: the so-called whale war is not over. Watson's bluster and aggressive tactics may have earned Sea Shepherd a reality television show (and a parody on South Park), but its high-profile approach has also helped the organization get charitable donations from major Hollywood players. Though Japan's ICR claims that almost half of the International Whaling Commission's members support sustainable whaling, right now only Japan, Norway and Iceland hunt whales in significant numbers. Even with the loss...