Whale Wars?

[moosmom]

I love that program! They saved 551 whales from being slaughtered by the Nisshim Oru, a whaling vessel out of Japan. I don't think it's anything to laugh at. The Japanese vessel was trespassing in a protected whale sanctuary. The skipper of the American ship was actually hit by a bullet that came from the Japanese vessel, who claim they had no firearms on board (yeah right). His life was saved by a bullet proof vest and his badge.

The Japanese have absolutely no respect for living beings. It angers me.

[RICHARD]

The skipper of the American ship was actually hit by a bullet that came from the Japanese vessel, who claim they had no firearms on board (yeah right). His life was saved by a bullet proof vest and his badge.

The Japanese have absolutely no respect for living beings. It angers me.

I found that the 'captain' of the ship was more willing to let the people who volunteered for the 'campaigns' to risk their lives while he sat back and delegated the stuff for them to do. Also, he never really attended any on the crew meetings, he let the others do his dirty work.
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One other thing I found to be entertaining was the 'no partying' until they got to port.

My ? was, how can people dress up and act the fool on a boat and the people in charge not know what was happening? The penalty was pretty harsh and those people did have the right to be protest a little-yeah, it's his boat but he treated them like kids.

They all volunteered to help this guy out on HIS 'die for the animals' quest, yet he didn't seem that interesting in putting his money where his mouth was.

From what I got out of the programs/episodes is that the turnover on the ship is pretty frequent because of the way the program is run. He's actually doing something good for the animals, but his way seems a little to self serving.

I also loved the clip of him in the captain's jacket at the ceremony.

Good idea, kinda strange way of doing it.

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Oh and I was really interested in why the helicopter got ruined.

Anyone knows-especially a pilot - that the utmost care has to be taken when you leave any kind of tool, vehicle, metal exposed to salt water. At the least the copter should have been covered, at the most, they should have washed the darn thing down after every storm that washed sea water on deck.

It just a matter of keeping your equipment clean and ready to roll.