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Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! 1
#19018011 - 10/23/13 09:01 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I had an industry hook up, a person I sailed with used to date someone in the Sea Shepherd fleet, I got an email address. (meaning I've somehow bypassed the fucking infinite queue of hippies no doubt wanting to get on)
I sent an email with all my previous antarctic seagoing experience and qualifications and this evening I got an email from one of the captains in the fleet asking if I am available to join the end of November for the anti-whaling campaign through until March
holy shit
I can't sleep Pretty nervous about the whole thing no idea what I'm getting myself into but very exciting....!
Not 100% confirmed yet but they sounded pretty excited about my previous experience etc...
it will be really good to do something with my seagoing life that serves something other than my own financial interests.
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: indica]
#19018022 - 10/23/13 09:02 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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All this to save whales? Now that's committed.
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: indica] 4
#19018079 - 10/23/13 09:26 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Isn't that the dumb activist group that pretends they are some sort of whale saving pirates but all they really do is barely annoy Japanese fishing ships? 
At least it's something you can be passionate about, with the work experience that you hold.
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: Everlong]
#19018084 - 10/23/13 09:28 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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It will look great on a resume: "what are you good at?" Answer: "throwing stink bombs at Japanese whaling ships."
Definitely get some mad job skills and opportunities from that.
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: mpd] 1
#19018112 - 10/23/13 09:35 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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mpd said: It will look great on a resume: "what are you good at?" Answer: "throwing stink bombs at Japanese whaling ships."
Definitely get some mad job skills and opportunities from that.
Maybe I'm getting this idea from the South Park episode about the topic, but isn't it sorta stupid to throw rotten food at people covered in fish guts? Like they give a fuck.
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: Everlong]
#19018124 - 10/23/13 09:39 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Those japs are scavengers if you ask me, fuck em
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: Konyap] 1
#19018163 - 10/23/13 09:47 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: Mad_Larkin]
#19018172 - 10/23/13 09:50 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Haven't they figure out a way to ruin the whale carcass so that the whalers cannot make money from them?
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: ChinChiller]
#19018184 - 10/23/13 09:52 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yes, they kill the whales and let them rot. At least the Japanese are eating them and not using them for scientific experiments like they claim.
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: mpd]
#19018209 - 10/23/13 09:58 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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yeah but the japs go to their mating grounds to fuck with them in enclosed space it's not like they're actively hunting them
only a beady eyed asian would see nothing wrong with that
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: Konyap]
#19018272 - 10/23/13 10:13 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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They should just shoot the Jap whalers
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: ChinChiller]
#19018275 - 10/23/13 10:14 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Or fly kamikaze right into their ships ala WWII
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: ChinChiller]
#19018291 - 10/23/13 10:17 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Gotta watch em
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: Konyap]
#19018309 - 10/23/13 10:20 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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wait isn't that a crab fishing boat?
I think that would be badass as shit to do that crab fishing in alaska. I dont know how you would get paid to harrass japanesse whalers though
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: Everlong]
#19018319 - 10/23/13 10:23 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Everlong said:
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mpd said: It will look great on a resume: "what are you good at?" Answer: "throwing stink bombs at Japanese whaling ships."
Definitely get some mad job skills and opportunities from that.
Maybe I'm getting this idea from the South Park episode about the topic, but isn't it sorta stupid to throw rotten food at people covered in fish guts? Like they give a fuck. 
I wondered that since whale wars first episode, and considering throughout the show's season, how many episodes are actually confrontational, and not bitching, and trying to fix whatever mistake one of the other dumbasses make? And how long are these confrontations? I'm willing to bet that if you condensed the whole series down to just scenes harassing the whaler's you might only have 3 full episodes? So there's about three hours out of the whole whaling season, where you try (and are rarely actually successful) to harass the whalers to stop.
In all honesty though op go for it, i would love to have all that time on the boat just fucking around and harassing people, I just get pissed when they get all preachy, and act like they're REALLY making a difference.
And don't even get me started on the wedding on an iceberg, this whole rant is making me realize the manority of the show's viewership, is made up of assholes like me, and i'm also the only one in my area, who watches it on a regular basis.
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: LuSiD enthusiast]
#19018680 - 10/23/13 10:30 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Just hurl your excrement at them.
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: indica]
#19018781 - 10/23/13 10:58 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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good luck man
try not to get any stinky butter on you
try not to get crabs
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: Mad_Larkin]
#19018797 - 10/23/13 11:05 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Didn't they just get their ship raided by the Russians? Tried to board an oil rig or something to put a sign up and the Russians were like 'no fucking way' and commando'd down on ropes from helicopters to their ship and charged them all with piracy because they got on their rig illegally. Actually now that I think about it that might've been Greenpeace. Either way, don't fuck with Russians.Quote:
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Looks like a laugh.
Who are they kidding. If shit got real are they even prepared? Do they just expect to run away? I mean I guess the show is almost all fake so what do they have to be prepared for anyway.
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: gzuf]
#19018859 - 10/23/13 11:21 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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i wouldnt mind shooting the jap walers right in the face and call it science.
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: Konyap] 2
#19019963 - 10/23/13 03:32 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Illyabo said: yeah but the japs go to their mating grounds to fuck with them in enclosed space it's not like they're actively hunting them
only a beady eyed asian would see nothing wrong with that
This isn't racist cos he's not talking about black people.
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: Mad_Larkin] 1
#19020000 - 10/23/13 03:37 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Mad_Larkin said:
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Illyabo said: yeah but the japs go to their mating grounds to fuck with them in enclosed space it's not like they're actively hunting them
only a beady eyed asian would see nothing wrong with that
This isn't racist cos he's not talking about black people.
If it was about black people Wiccan would of banned him into the next century. I guess Wiccan doesn't care about Asians.
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: Everlong]
#19020702 - 10/23/13 05:54 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Everlong said: Isn't that the dumb activist group that pretends they are some sort of whale saving pirates but all they really do is barely annoy Japanese fishing ships? 
At least it's something you can be passionate about, with the work experience that you hold. 
Actually last yea they put a massive dent i.n the whalers quota.
They do cop a lot of flack from armchair experts. Its something ive always wanted to do and feel its a good cause. Its all volunteer, not paid.
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: indica]
#19020709 - 10/23/13 05:55 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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that sea shepard boat the built was bad ass..
to bad it sank.
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: rackem]
#19020721 - 10/23/13 05:57 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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The Gojira? Theyve rebuilt it. Its now called the Brigitte Bardot. I saw it in hobart last year. Its painted white now with a big girl on it. Not as badass as before
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: indica]
#19020738 - 10/23/13 05:59 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: indica]
#19020751 - 10/23/13 06:03 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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my adi gal is the one i am thinking of.
did they rebuild that beast?
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: rackem]
#19020827 - 10/23/13 06:19 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Says its listed as sunk. I forget how many ships they have/had. I spoke to the captain of the brigitte bardot/gojira when i saw it last year, he said these things cop a pounding in the weather. Amazed they they use then down south
Gojira looked badass to
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: indica]
#19020869 - 10/23/13 06:26 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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yeah, thats a bitchen boat as well.
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they dont pick up used slouches thats for sure..
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: indica]
#19024192 - 10/24/13 06:50 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Everlong said: Isn't that the dumb activist group that pretends they are some sort of whale saving pirates but all they really do is barely annoy Japanese fishing ships? 
At least it's something you can be passionate about, with the work experience that you hold. 
Actually last yea they put a massive dent i.n the whalers quota.
They do cop a lot of flack from armchair experts. Its something ive always wanted to do and feel its a good cause. Its all volunteer, not paid.
Source? I have a really hard time believing they achieve any success with their passive aggressive techniques.
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: Everlong]
#19024364 - 10/24/13 07:54 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: indica]
#19024368 - 10/24/13 07:55 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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fouling their propellors and hurling stink bombs is hardly passive aggressive. within the quasi-compliance of legality within maritime law, they do a pretty good job of being disruptive
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: indica]
#19024377 - 10/24/13 08:02 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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indica said: http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/2010/03/08/antarctic-campaign-report-success-defending-whales-222
http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=5894
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we can see that Sea Shepherd began its campaign when whale catches were at their lowest, and catches have increased since then. Despite their claims of preventing whaling, we can see that more whales were killed per year after 2004 than any year before 2004. In other words, more whales are dying on Sea Shepherd’s watch.
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indica said: fouling their propellors and hurling stink bombs is hardly passive aggressive. within the quasi-compliance of legality within maritime law, they do a pretty good job of being disruptive
I wasn't aware they "foul propellors," but hurling stink bombs is the definition of passive aggressive, especially when they are hurled at people who smell rotten fish guts all day.
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: Everlong]
#19024395 - 10/24/13 08:10 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah but what about the stinky bombs hitting whale carcasses? I have no clue what they use but it might not be the best for the meat? I'm kind of reaching here but there may be a valid reason...
EDIT: ive never actually seen the show so I really have no clue, I might go find an episode or two now lol.
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: Everlong]
#19024411 - 10/24/13 08:15 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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keep in mind the japs have aggresively ramped up their whaling fleets. reading the japanese seaman's union website they pretty much say they're training people up for jobs that dont exist to encourage growth in the whaling industry. that chart goes back to 1996, 1994 was when the "research" whaling started in the antarctic.
There's a lot of politics not just in the antarctic but coastal whaling that the japanese do especially around that time of the spike in 2005-2007. The IWC rules are forever changing and being challenged and reviewed, nevertheless I still firmly believe that the Sea Shepherd work is something that the rest of the fucking world is too gutless to do, we'll go to war over "WMD'S" that do not exist, but wont step in and impose legitimate diplomatic pressure over a clear exploitation of a loophole for the mass slaughter of a defenseless species in the name of a lie just for the sake of killing them
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: ClockCode] 1
#19024413 - 10/24/13 08:16 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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butyric acid; renders the meat useless
inb4 pris comes in and says whales are stupid because he grew them on his farm and couldnt feed his kids and fucking hippes etc
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: indica]
#19033056 - 10/25/13 08:33 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Nice one man, good for you. I'd love the chance to get onboard one of their ships too. Fuck those peices of shit whalers. Cunts!
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: Shroomeup]
#19033069 - 10/25/13 08:38 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'd shoot them if it was allowed.
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: Shroomeup]
#19033070 - 10/25/13 08:38 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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And thanks, hear back from the captain end of the week to find out whether or not he's got a spot for me.
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: indica]
#19034235 - 10/26/13 04:29 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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indica said: I'd shoot them if it was allowed.
You realize the research boats are thinking the same thing, right? And they would be better equipped, too.
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: Everlong]
#19034286 - 10/26/13 05:10 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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killing whale is so passe. now Dolphins... that shit is keen, and the Japanese LLLLLLLLLLLLOVE Dolphin tail soup with extra death on the side, hold the God.
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: akira_akuma]
#19034292 - 10/26/13 05:13 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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If dolphins and whales were so smart they would like totally hide when the boats that kill them come.
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Re: Getting on a Sea Shepherd ship for this seasons campaign! [Re: Everlong]
#19034294 - 10/26/13 05:14 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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yeah, in a little secret Cove that no one would ever...whooaaooops!
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