Nov 05 2008
Whale Wars!
From the site, http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-081002-1.html,
Sea Shepherd is very excited to announce that on Friday, November 7th Animal Planet will premiere Whale Wars at 9 PM ET/PT in the US, and internationally in early 2009.
During Sea Shepherd’s Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign: Operation Migaloo in 2007/08, Animal Planet had a camera crew on board a campaign that saved the lives of nearly 500 whales, leaving the Japanese fleet with less then half of their quota and costing them tens of millions of dollars. This new seven-part, hour-long weekly series follows the crew of the Sea Shepherd vessel, Steve Irwin as they use non-violent direct action techniques that garner world wide media attention in an effort to shut down the illegal Japanese whaling fleet and enforce international conservation law.
It’s times like this I dearly miss having television. If anyone watches it, let me know how it is!
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How wonderful they named the ship after Steve! So appropriate.
I’m looking forward to this series, and another new one on discoveries in Quantum physics and the possibilities of parallel universe, among other things. Wish I could remember the name of the series!
The Science Channel and National Geographic Channel have been really great this year!
Dana
I did watch it. It was awesome and thought provoking all at once. It challenged the way I had always viewed Greenpeace. I am in many ways not so favorable now. This Friday’s episode will be quite telling since from the previews it appears that they do get into an encounter with a whaling ship.
This episode was fraught with it’s own perils just aboard the ship!