Of the few episodes I have watched I have been treated to a group of people breaking international law repeatedly, wage acts of terror, and repeatedly put their own selves in danger. The last point is a big one We see a simple boat launch go bad, improper use of sea equipment, and use of a damaged helicopter even after the craft's makers recommend it not be flown in the condition it's in.
How about using your brain and make the pen be mightier than the sword? Educate with information, not acts of terrorism. I fully agree with the concept of Sea Shepherd in terms of their anti whaling efforts although not with all of their interference in all spheres of marine life conservation.
These efforts should for the most part be lauded whilst the International community should be condemned for their inactivity in upholding International law. However the show fails for me for the total ineptitude and over the top attitude of most of the crew. It appears that the editing is focused on stupid facial expressions and over the top platitudes and this makes me squirm literally. If it focused on genuine as it happens events and results it would be far more palatable.
The crew when on camera should be more honest and less concerned with their 15 minutes of fames and attempts to get across how ridiculously green they are. This portrayal certainly dissuades me from actively supporting what is very well meant enterprise. Even the Captains and Head Honcho Paul Watson come across as morons in terms of stating the glaringly obvious solely for grandiose dramatic effect and just results in me hating them for their misguided idea that this helps their cause.
It doesnt! Just try to get the job done without all the theatrical heroics and I might respect you and support you more. I would also be interested in testing their continual insistence that they would give their individual lives for a whale.
As ex military I severely suspect that confronted with the actuality of this statement that their opinions might change. I have no problem with that but don't say what you aren't really willing to back up. We will hopefully never have to find out who's right on this issue. Whale Wars is an OK introduction to the Sea Shepard conversation organization, but follows PC sensationalism in exclusively keying in on human stories, and therefore misses on the real story that Sea Shepard is about: the whales!!
There is essentially nothing about what whales are about, how humans have terrorized and murdered these creatures for centuries, how terribly whales die by harpoons and other torture devices utilized by modern whaling ships, how little we know about whales' consciousness and social behavior, how much we do know about them.
Without any providing emphasis about the most justifiable reasons for not murdering whales, the series misses out on the main points that should be made in support of Sea Shepard. Even so, this series provide a good introduction to the organization, and should help with awareness and fund raising.
Paul Watson obviously approves, but one has to suppose for pragmatic reasons. EvilBaldDude 18 January The reason this series is so poorly rated, is that there are a lot of users who strenuously object to the idea of a group like Sea Shepherd being presented as heroes. And indeed, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society are the heroes of this show, while the whalers are the bad guys.
There's no getting around it. But if, like me, this does not bother you in the slightest, then I highly recommend viewing this. The narrative and the mise-en-scene are brilliantly done.
That is to say that the editing and the way events are presented is good story telling. The photography of the show is also quite superb. There are images of massive ice bergs, huge ships being tossed around in great storms. And the show is also accurately named. Even though nobody is killed, it is a war.
Every season brings a new escalation in the conflict, new weapons, tactics and tricks by both Sea Shepherd and the whalers. Some Figures monstrous and mis-shap'd appear, Consider'd singly, or beheld too near, Which, but proportion'd to their Light, or Place, Due Distance reconciles to Form and Grace. Make jokes about what you would do if you were a whale, but you should know something about this series called Whale Wars.
It is unusual, and it is raw. If you have not seen it, it is something different than shows like Deadliest Catch. It puts us on the scene of a confrontation between two philosophies. Maybe some things look deformed and clumsy when viewed up close, but with a proper distance their form is something of grace and beauty For what it's worth, my view of the world has grown into something cynical, and I find this program truly compelling. First off, I oppose whaling, but frankly if this troop of inexperienced sea crew were the ones out to save the whale, and I was a whale, I would beach myself.
Not only are they inept, the last episode's staged gun shot to the captain was enough to set me over the edge and consider this nothing more than propaganda and trash. It is no wonder that Green Peace distanced themselves for the Captain and his lemmings.
This show does more to hurt the anti-whaling movement than to help it. Not only is the crew inept, they have no integrity.
At first the show was humorous with its daily following of the inexperienced crew that is sailing out to Artic waters and we get to see that they are all environmentally conscious as well as "veggies". Their dedication to saving whales over rides their common sense as well as that as the Captain for obtaining such a crew of idealists that really don't know the aft from the stern.
Here they are thrust into dangerous waters with nothing but the power of hope. Sounds suicidal doesn't it? You almost get the sense you are watching a crew lead by Jim Jones sailing only on ideals. But with the last episode of the ship throwing bottles of acid at the deck of a Japanese Whaler in order to stink up the deck and spoil the whaling meat, the Captain fakes being shot by what he claims was one of the Japanese whaling ship's crew.
It is so obviously staged that one cannot pretend that these people are not only misguided, but will lie to get attention to set themselves up as martyrs and victims of the Japanese Whaling Industry. I opposed whaling, but I detest these people more and their Captain who will go to any length to bolster his ego as being the lone fighter against Whalers.
I honestly think he probably doesn't even care about the Whales more than he does his image as their savior. In the interest of full disclosure, I have to confess that I've only been able to sit through three episodes over the last two years.
I gave it a chance, it was crap. I gave it a second chance and, yup, still crap. A friend told me to try again but it was crap. From five minutes in, you just want the remote in your hand to stifle the stupidity and boredom, interlaced with watching stupid people do stupid things. A college professor once told me that being ignorant is worse than being stupid. If you're stupid you don't know, but if you're ignorant you must have "ignored" the lesson.
That is, you could have learned but chose not to. These people are ignorant. Activists have a valid place in our world, and I do not dispute the Sea Shepards' right to raise money, sail boats to frigid waters, and protest. Gil still believes that Sea Shepherd brought public awareness to whale conservation, but his opinion on their tactics has changed. For the first time in 30 years, the Japanese fleet killed no whales this season. He is quick to say that attacking other groups on the conservation spectrum for not doing enough is not the way to go, however.
Governments all over the world are struggling to combat illegal fishing, and some are even giving it tacit support. In addition to intervention, Sea Shepherd continues to branch out and make high-profile allegiances with less aggressive groups.
They recently partnered with Bionic Yarns, a fabric company fronted by singer Pharrell Williams that turns ocean plastics into high-end fashion. Last month, SSCS entered into an agreement with the Mexican government to provide patrolling and scientific monitoring for the vaquita, a rare species of porpoise.
The group will also organize volunteers this summer to protect turtle hatches in the name of a Costa Rican environmental activist killed by poachers. The results of theses campaigns are also visible. In the wake of the Ady Gil controversy, at least half a dozen employees or high-ranking volunteers have left.
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Prime Minister says he does not believe he has told a lie in public life. With Thailand's sex industry shuttered, Dao's savings are almost gone and she's struggling to provide for her family. We will never quit until the abomination of whaling is abolished forever by anyone, anywhere, for any reason. Sea Shepherd is doing incredible things on the Ocean with limited resources, in addition to tackling illegal whaling activities.
The endangered Vaquita would now be extinct if not for our intervention. We shut down the entire Southern Ocean pirate toothfish fleet. We have intercepted and stopped poachers off West Africa, in the marine reserves of the Galapagos, Sicily and Panama.
We have removed hundreds of tons of ghost nets and plastics from the sea, and most importantly we have shown the world what a few passionate and courageous people can do. Our objective is to continue to serve and protect all life in the Ocean from illegal and greedy exploitation by destructive humans.
Sea Shepherd has accomplished something absolutely remarkable over the last 12 years. The Japanese factory ship with a slaughtered whale documented on Operation Nemesis in January We need to formulate this new plan and we will. Thousands of whales are now swimming and reproducing that would now be dead if not for our interventions, And perhaps more significantly than anything else, there are now voices in the Japanese government opposing the continuation of whaling.
Sea Shepherd is guided by this one reality: If the Ocean dies, we die! Share this.
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