Night Attack on The Bob Barker

on Sunday morning on the 23rd of February Sea Shepherd for the third time this season located the Nisshin Maru at the bottom of the Ross Sea the Nisshin Maru was found in whaling formation with the 3u Shin Mario's its harpoon ships and the security vessel the Shonan Maru the Bob Barker was sailing peacefully six miles off the stern of the Nisshin Maru guarding its slipway and preventing their illegal whale poaching operations once again the Japanese whaling fleet waited for the cover and protection of darkness and rough weather and launched another strategized attack on the Bob Barker in order to allow the Nisshin Maru to break free of the sea Shepherd ships and continue their illegal killing of whales within an internationally-recognized century just like last time this attack was unprovoked but this time they made their intentions clear you should more evolved our corrosion Maru number three Bob Barker let me be very very clear what you are doing is illegal we are doing nothing wrong we are doing nothing wrong you are acting unlawfully and your actions are being reported to the governments of Australia and the government of New Zealand I have nine Australian citizens on board and you are risking their lives make it very clear what you are doing is illegal under the cover of darkness the yoozh in my room and you should Maori number three across the bow of the Bob Barker a total of 33 times over the course of six hours they dragged steel cables up to 250 meters long across the bow of the Bob Barker attempting to disable their propeller and rudder during this the whaling fleet shone spotlights into the bridge of the Bob Barker making safe navigation difficult despite these difficult conditions the Bob Barker launched its small boat in an attempt to cut four steel cables and continue on that course the small boat crews were out in pitch black conditions in minus 10 degrees Celsius for over four hours and had projectiles and shards of ice thrown at them from the bow of the ution my room after six exhausting hours the Nisshin Maru once again slipped out of sight and off the Bob Barker's radar this attack showed an unprecedented escalation of desperation and aggression from a dying industry with no regard for the future of our oceans when the captain of the Nisshin Maru was asked whether or not he believed anything would stop Sea Shepherd's campaigns in the Antarctic he simply answered not because they never retreat despite these attacks we will find them a fourth time and we will do all we can to stop them because when it comes to upholding international conservation law and defending whales lives we never retreat we are relentless you

Channel: Sea Shepherd

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Rating: 4.5914984 out of 5

Keywords: Sea Shepherd, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (Organization), Bob Barker, Japan, Japanese Whaling Fleet, whales

Id: 8HZoW_PcgDo

Length: 4min 2sec (242 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 24 2014