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It’s now the fourth day that the Sea Shepherd ship, Steve Irwin, has been on the tail of the whaling fleet. It’s calm weather and the Japanese whalers have turned South heading towards Vincennes Bay between the Budd Coast and Knox Coast of Wilkes Land. It’s calm at the moment but a storm is brewing to the South, in more ways than one…
They’ve zigged and zagged their way 800 nautical miles only to be 300 miles from where they started from!
Here’s where they started (google earth link) and here’s where they are now (google earth link)
Captain Paul Watson:
We imagine that the whalers on the Yushin Maru No. 2 have been tearing their ship apart looking for our tracking devices. They won’t find them, and the batteries are good for over a year. We may even be able to use the devices next year if the Japanese fleet returns.
A couple of reporters have asked why we would admit to planting tracking devices on the ships. The answer to that is we want the Japanese whalers to know that we know where they are. We want them to know we are on their tail constantly. We want them looking over their shoulders constantly scanning the horizon for the black ship that will intervene against their poaching activities.
The Steve Irwin is coming and if Steve were with us he would be saying, “Danger, danger, crikey you whalers, these Shepherds are dangerous, because like the rest of Australia they are very filthy with what you’re doing.”
They are moving into an area where they can kill whales and if they stop to harpoon whales the Steve Irwin will be on them.
