Whale Wars?

[Karen]

The bombs were made of paper and ransid butter, which smelled awful and made the decks slippery. It actually brought the whaling ship to a standstill.

Don't know much about the skipper wanting fortune and fame in front of the television camera. I'll have to watch it more closely and reserve my opinion till then.

They throw two "weapons" - glass bottles of buteric acid (from rancid butter), and the other thing they throw is the methyl cellulose, in paper packages wrapped with tape that burst upon hitting the other ship. It is powder that forms a gel when it gets wet, so is very difficult to wash away. So the buteric acid is the "stinky" and the cellulose" is the "slippery" - just a clarification!

[moosmom]

Thanks, Mayor!!

[G535]

Some recent news items: http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-...-the-news.html

I don't agree with their methods but can't come up with a better (legal) way to deter the whalers.