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Down Under
Captain of protest vessel claims spy trawler is shadowing him
2008-01-19
The Japanese government is thought to have sent a large ocean-going trawler into the Southern Ocean near Antarctica to track one of the environmental activist ships trying to stop a whale hunt.

Captain Paul Watson, on board the Sea Shepherd conservation society's vessel, the Steve Irwin, said yesterday by satellite phone that the drag trawler Fukoyoshi Maru No 68 was shadowing his ship. "It has no fishing gear on board and appears to have more electronic gear than normal for a fishing vessel. It is not part of the whaling fleet of seven ships. It is apparently reporting our position to the Japanese fleet."
Posted by:Steve White

#12  I would just settle for a "Rogue Wave" and call the Irwin lost.
Posted by: DarthVader   2008-01-19 22:53  

#11  Australia was suppose to be sending a government spy ship to track the Japanese.. This is turning into a game of 'cat and mouse'.

Both sides suck and should go home.
Posted by: Oztralian   2008-01-19 22:33  

#10  I'd be keeping a weather eye out for the Oceanic Viking.
Posted by: Thomas Woof   2008-01-19 19:04  

#9  What the hell is a tracking vessel going to do anyways?

How about Jamming the "Activists" com gear, no incoming or outgoing electronic messages, no E-Mail, No internet, No video, no telephone, in other words cut off their publicity generating ability, their main reason for being there, harrassing the Whalers, will NOT be broadcast.
Let them die of frustration, they're media whores, no media, no attention.

Sounds entirely practical to me.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2008-01-19 15:23  

#8  His plans were spoiled by the meddling kids.
Posted by: Super Hose   2008-01-19 13:27  

#7  Watson grow a spine you leftist twit.
Posted by: Icerigger   2008-01-19 13:09  

#6  What the hell is a tracking vessel going to do anyways? They sure as hell aren't going to move the whalers in time. If I was Watson I'd be having a beer on deck mooning the Maru.
Posted by: Icerigger   2008-01-19 13:07  

#5  It's always good when the ELINT people get a chance to do live exercises. I'm sure the Japanese navy is grateful to those idiots for the training opporunity.
Posted by: lotp   2008-01-19 12:49  

#4  Powered by steam from DeNile River.
Posted by: Seafarious   2008-01-19 11:49  

#3  Stalker bitchin about being stalked. Rich :)

The hull of the Steve Irwin is apparently made of irony.
Posted by: SteveS   2008-01-19 10:48  

#2  It has no fishing gear on board and appears to have more electronic gear than normal for a fishing vessel.

Hey the guys just want their normal electronic fix they feed back home in Yokohama. You've never seen the kids walking around with the latest and greatest in tech gear in Japan?

Captain of protest vessel claims spy trawler is shadowing him

Stalker bitchin about being stalked. Rich :)
The 'victimhood' culture.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2008-01-19 07:43  

#1  They did not mention the submarine in the report, did they? Mum's the word.....
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2008-01-19 00:25  

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