Saturday, 1 January 2011

Antarctic Ocean - 62 degrees 30 You minutos & 147 degrees 25 minutes west 1100 hours
AEST

"What a great way to start the new year", said the captain of the Gojira, Locky MacLean, Canada. "Our three vessels dancing dangerously with the ice packs locked in confrontation with the three harpoon vessels of the Japanese whaling fleet. This is so deadly as it is beautiful. Deadly because of the ice and the hostility of the whalers, and beautiful because of the ice and the fact that these three killer ships are not killing whales while they are preoccupied in conflict with us. "

The three harpoon vessels Yushin Maru, Yushin Maru #2 e o Yushin Maru #3 tried to block the Sea Shepherd ships – Steve Irwin, Bob Barker e Gojira – chase the factory ship Nisshin Maru.

The entire Japanese whaling fleet is involved in the conflict, and while they are worried about us are not killing whales. The Sea Shepherd ships are chasing the slower factory ship Nisshin Maru, while the rapid Japanese harpoon vessels are chasing the fleet of Sea Shepherd. Despite its speed, the harpoon vessels are not faster than the Gojira, with the aid of aerial surveillance of Sea Shepherd helicopter Nancy Burnet, is in pursuit of the Nisshin Maru floating abattoir.

"We caught them before they could even kill a whale. They are not hunting today and our challenge now is to make sure they will not kill a single whale in the days following,"Said campaign leader of the Sea Shepherd Captain Paul Watson.

This year Sea Shepherd has the ability to keep one of its ships in the whaling fleet sizing for the duration of the season of Japanese whaling, which usually ends in the middle or end of March. "Our goal is to save as many whales maximizing the financial losses of the whalers at the same time." Captain Watson said in a statement in the Southern Ocean.

Collision between whaling and anti-whaling vessels today involved several high-speed chases and collisions while ships avoided the huge chunks of ice from a blue iceberg floating hardened and dispersed irregularly. The whalers turned their water cannons high power hoses and the crew of the Sea Shepherd, while the Sea Shepherd responded with some foul-smelling substances rather nasty. There were no injuries.

"We have no death so far,"Said the captain of the Bob Barker, Alex Cornelissen da Holanda. We intend to do everything possible with the resources available to us be sure that the deaths may never be realized. We need to, and hopefully they matenham fleeing. "

The Sea Shepherd ships have found the Japanese whaling fleet in remote waters to the exact 1700 nautical miles southwest of New Zealand 31 December 2010. The Japanese fleet had just broken from Japan and had not started their operations when the whaling Sea Shepherd intercepted them.