Japanese Fight Back Against Sea Shepherd

The Japanese are showing those eco-religionist hippies on the Steve Irwin a thing or two. They have dedicated a ship to tailing the Anti-Whaling ship to report on its movements and to prevent it from harassing other ships and endangering the crew aboard whaling ships. When the Sea Shepherd got angry and tried to buzz the tailing ship with its helicopter, the ship defended itself with the Long Range Acoustic Device, which is what most ships use to defend against piracy.

The Lulz here at News.Com.Au:

THE anti-whale hunting group the Sea Shepherd said a Japanese security ship has illegally followed them into French Antarctic waters and fired “a military class weapon” at their helicopter.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said the Japanese ship the Shonan Maru No 2 had been following its vessel, the Steve Irwin, for nine of the 10 days it had been sailing since leaving Fremantle.

Sea Shepherd said the Shonan Maru had been constantly reporting the Steve Irwin’s location, preventing it from closing in on the Japanese whaling fleet.

The spokeswoman said the Steve Irwin helicopter then flew back to film the Shonan Maru in its pursuit.

“In response, the crew of the Japanese ship activated their Long Range Acoustical Device (LRAD) at the Sea Shepherd helicopter,” she said.

Killing whales saves the planet you know. Whales eat plankton, so much of it that there is not enough plankton left to absorb dangerous CO2 from the atmosphere. For every whale killed, it is the equivalent of removing 2.5 million cars from the road, and don’t forget, Kyoto means “dead whale” in Nipponese.