Whale Wars

Japanese harpoon ship

Have you seen this show? Whale Wars is about volunteer animal rights activists who raise money from rich people, like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, to go on missions to Antarctica and track Japanese whalers who they believe have violated whale quotas. It is really like Star Wars because they out in the middle of this great vastness tracking ships with the exact same radar used in Spaceballs the movie. There is a Japanese spy ship which tracks the activists (who call themselves The Sea Shepards) aboard their vessel, The Steve Irwin. Following? In last night's episode, The Sea Shepards were trying to lose the spy ship so they navigated into a field of icebergs and turned off their engines so they appeared just like an iceberg to the spy ship's radar, thus losing them. If the SS do come upon the Japanese harpoon ships, or better yet, the main processing vessel like in last night's ep, they turn into pirates and board the ship to serve a warrant citing some international whaling treaty. Because all of this happens in the frigid, empty international waters, no governments enforce the rules so these sea vigilantes are the only ones to do it. It is really quite fascinating, you must watch!