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Tigernanama wrote:

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It's a little hard to "slip" off the deck -- and think of the conditions they sail in, which usually include fairly rough seas. I think more than likely it was fabricated (doubt the network would have signed off on it otherwise) or a naturally occurring accident.

Having said that, this show is setting back the eco movement about twenty years. Granted, I'm pretty stone hearted, but showing the harpooning footage was really powerful, brutal stuff -- that instantly lost its gravitas due to the handwringing and wailing of the people. Also, running out to the deck every time a whale shows and losing their minds over their beauty -- again, if you don't want to perceived as hippie clowns, then don't act like hippie clowns.

And finally, the first mate whose name I can't be bothered to look up. David Brown? Eh. We've all met guys like this, right? Officious little shits who know everything and are never wrong, and whose experience and gut checks are far more valuable than your fancy schmancy technology there, boy. He fits the stereotype of a the picked on guy who is going to get even, under the guise of eco warrior bullshit, and the one who always takes it way too far.

TV MA LSV wrote:

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The biggest thing that pisses me off is their attitudes about the whales.

If a whale is harpooned, they want to cut the line. The whale is most likely to die, but that's OK to them, because they cut the line and the whale will die outside of the Japanese ship.

And if a whale is killed and pulled on board of a processing ship, then they want to toss foul chemicals onto the ship to destroy the whale carcass. So the whale died without cause. And another whale will be killed in its stead.


They don't really seem to care if a whale is killed, as long as they can fuck up the whale in front of their cameras.

These "sea shepards" are sick fucks...