Thursday, February 08, 2007
PIRATES MISSING
Action on the high seas, where Sea Shepherd pirates bent on whaler harassment were previously blocked by ice then, in a sudden turnaround, attacked Japanese vessels with “butter acid”. The latest plot twist is astonishing:
Japanese whalers are helping search for two Sea Shepherd activists and their Zodiac inflatable, who went missing in freezing waters in the Antarctic during an anti-whaling operation.
This is getting better by the minute.
UPDATE. Meet the Sea Shepherd crew.
UPDATE II. One of the missing idiots is Australian:
One of the men was an Australian from Perth and the other an American from New York, said Captain Paul Watson, aboard the Sea Shepherd vessel Farley Mowat.
“I am confident we should be able to find them. They are dressed for the conditions,” he said.
UPDATE III. Idiots found, hostilities resumed:
Two missing Sea Shepherd activists have been found safe in the Antarctic, and hostilities have resumed against the Japanese whaling fleet.
The whalers called a truce to help the hardline anti-whaling group in their search caused when the two aboard a Zodiac inflatable dinghy disappeared suddenly in fog in icy waters south-west of Australia …
Captain Watson said he had thanked the Japanese for their assistance, and then told them, “now it’s back to business.”
UPDATE IV. Prior to the two clowns becoming lost, Sea Shepherd goons had injured Japanese crewmen:
Sea Shepherd said on its website that it had “successfully delivered” six litres of butyric acid to the ship’s flensing deck, where whales are cut up, halting the crew’s work.
Two Japanese crewmen were injured, one when he was hit in the face by an empty container of acid and the other when acid was squirted into one of his eyes.