Many years ago, I spent a fascinating afternoon aboard the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s Sea Shepherd II in Alexandria, Virginia, before it headed off to tackle Russian whalers in the Bering Srait. have to say I approved of what they were trying to do – and still do. Yesterday, a Japanese surveillance ship, the Shonan Maru II, ran down Sea Shepherd’s $2 million trimaran, the Ady Gil.
I had featured the trimaran in slide presentations in its previous guise, as the Earthrace, which held the world record for the fastest circumnavigation. Given that the Japanese whalers were operating in Australian territorial waters, it is hard not to sympathise with an Australian member of the Sea Shepherd flagship, Steve Irwin. “Where the bloody hell are you?” she demanded of the Australian government.
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