Tonight: Premiere of "Whale Wars" on Animal Planet

[Barrett808]

Watch the crew of the Steve Irwin take on Japanese whale poachers in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Guaranteed to be the most exciting reality show this season.

9:00PM E/P
http://animal.discovery.com/tv/whale-wars





Just for context, this is what industrial whaling has done to the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the destruction of the N. Pacific kelp forest:




Sequential collapse of marine mammals in the North Pacific Ocean and southern Bering Sea
http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2003/10/SW200310-300.pdf

[Annces]

1. Great. Will watch. n/t

[Barrett808]

2. First episode was GREAT

That fuckup with launching the Delta was damned scary.

[XemaSab]

3. That first episode

really made them look amateurish.

I hope their professionalism improves.

[Number9Dream]

4. Ditto

Keeping the bow of the delta parallel to the ship should not be just one guy holding a rope. There are many ways to achieve a much greater mechanical advantage.
The "stink-bombs" could be launched much further using a large sling-shot made of surgical tubing.

[XemaSab]

5. I'm not a nautical expert

but having a bunch of RANK amateurs try to launch the delta while the ship was moving? Stupid. Really, really stupid.

And I might even go so far as to say that they shouldn't go out to sea with that many amateurs to begin with.

Finally, I am reminded of why I moved out of Humboldt county. :hide: