Sunday, December 25, 2011

Sea Shepherd Intercepts the Japanese Whaling Fleet with Drones

Oh I do like your style boys, drones indeed. Drive on!

And fair play to Bayshore Recycling Corp (BRC) and Moran Office of Maritime and Port Security (MOMPS) for making this possible. Good on you.

Sea Shepherd Intercepts the Japanese Whaling Fleet with Drones

Japanese Security Ships Move In On the Steve Irwin
December 24, 2011


The Sea Shepherd crew has intercepted the Japanese whaling fleet on Christmas Day, a thousand miles north of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

The Sea Shepherd ship, Steve Irwin, deployed a drone to successfully locate and photograph the Japanese factory ship Nisshin Maru on December 24th. Once the pursuit began, three Japanese harpoon/security ships moved in on the Steve Irwin to shield the Nisshin Maru to allow it to escape.

This time however the Japanese tactic of tailing the Steve Irwin and the Bob Barker will not work because the drones, one on the Steve Irwin and the other on the Bob Barker, can track and follow the Nisshin Maru and can relay the positions back to the Sea Shepherd ships.

“We can cover hundreds of miles with these drones and they have proven to be valuable assets for this campaign,” said Captain Paul Watson on board the Steve Irwin.

The drone named Nicole Montecalvo was donated to the Steve Irwin by Bayshore Recycling of New Jersey, and Moran Office of Maritime and Port Security, also of New Jersey.

Captain Watson having received reports from fishermen when the Japanese ship passed through the Lombok Strait waited south of the strait at a distance of 500 miles off the southwest coast of Western Australia. Sea Shepherd caught the whalers at 37 degrees South, far above the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. More and photo's.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

http://www.seashepherd.org/cove-
guardians/operation-infinite-
patience-december-25-2011.html

Himself said...

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2011/12/queen_calls_for_better_care_of.php

Anonymous said...

So many men so many minds.

Queenie is a Greenie? http://bit.ly/u8wgIR

A safe home in politics. PH

Himself said...

Nice Queen, shame about the hat.

In the past, Wilders has called for a lesser role for the monarch in Dutch politics.


And I call for all pols to stop making the fate of our planet a party political issue.

Anonymous said...

o/t (info)
Wilders and the queen, a difficult relationship http://bit.ly/yWd8x8

Himself said...

Perhaps he should have included the Catholic Church while he was about, there is nobody with more blood on their hands than the buggery club.

Mind you, Martin Luther was an extremely rabid anti-semite.

These men of God!