An iceberg as seen from the bow of the Steve Irwin(Sea Shepherd ship).


Shortly after 00 hours on Jan 12, the Greepeace ship Esperenza located the Nisshin Maru and the other 5 Japanese whaling ships near Antarctica. The Japanese immediately stopped killing whales and started running in a foolish attempt to escape. The Sea Shepherds are only a day from contact themselves and closing in fast.

While Greenpeace is refusing to share the coordinates of the Japanese fleet with the Sea Shepherds, ships running flat-out are not hard to find on the Steve Irwin's powerful radar-and Sea Shepherd has sources inside Greenpeace anyway.

Here's how it works: If the Japanese ships see the Steve Irwin and try to stop and pose as an iceberg on radar, Greenpeace is on them in a flash. If the Greenpeace ships spitefully try this, the whaling ships escape.

Only an agreement between Greenpeace and the whale killers could make the "sprint-and drift," radar-hiding game work, and there is just too much incentive to cheat for that game to work.

In addition, Capt Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherds says "We know where the Greenpeace ship Esperanza is and if Greenpeace is in contact with the Japanese fleet, Sea Shepherd will be there as quickly as we can cover the distance between our two positions."

The last time the Sea Shepherds engaged the Nisshin Maru, they sent the whalers to flight-and the Japanese ended up back in harbor with a half cargo of rotting whale meat after their engine room caught fire while about 1,000 miles away.

Perhaps this time the Sea Shepherds won't let the Japanese get 1,000 FEET, much less miles away!

Here is the entry form Greenpeace's crew blog describing the finding of the Japanese whaling fleet:

Gotcha!
Iceberg seen over bow of Sea Shepherd ship
by Luke from DC Saturday Jan 12th, 2008 5:28 PM

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Closing in to finish off the whalers!