Sea Shepherd Activists and Japanese whalers in close and dangerous encounters.

The Sea Sheepherder Crew in the particular Southern Ocean are continuing their Procedure No Compromise that's interfering with the Japanese whalers in the actual sanctuary. Yesterday the crew of the particular Gojira, a high-speed vessel, encountered the actual factory ship the Nisshin Maru in the process of flensing(skinning off the actual blubber) of a whale. They stressed the ship with slingshots shooting reddish paint and attempted to block the bigger vessel from getting away. The crew will have to keep in mind the dangerous show last year each time a collision between the particular high tech Ady Gil along with a Japanese whaler resulted in the sinking with the Ady Gil. This particular encounter stopped just short of make contact with. The Gojira slowed up the progress from the Nisshin Maru enough so that the actual Bob Barker might catch up into it and tail this.

It would appear that the Japanese whalers are utilizing dirty tricks to try and evade the Ocean Shepherd activists. On February 4, the Yusshin Maru 3 which had already been tailing the Joe Barker and the actual Gojira as these people hunted for the particular elusive factory dispatch issued a distress call claiming that they were under attack by the Sea Shepherd folks.

"The Institute with regard to Cetacean Research (ICR) issued a statement claiming the distress signal was made as the Yushin Maru Absolutely no. 3 was “under attack” by Sea Shepherd."Sea Sheepherder News

Maritime law requires that the particular nearest vessels stand by to offer support. This ploy postponed the Sea Sheepman boats for 48 hours at which period the Yushin Maru No.3 let the Foreign authorities know that there was simply no emergency. In the actual meantime, the manufacturing facility ship had an opportunity to slip away. Unbeknown to the Japanese whaler at time, a crew from your TV series Animal Planet was on-board the Sea Sheepherder vessel and capable of record the occasion.

The Southern Ocean is supposed to be an area regarding sanctuary for these types of large ocean mammals. There exists a prohibition against industrial whaling in the particular ocean surrounding Antarctica. The Japanese Institute for Cetacean Research (ICR) maintains that the giant kill is purely for research functions, a stand which is disputed by many.