Damaged Japanese Whaling Ship May Resume Hunting off Antarctica

[WhiteTara]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aLCsC_Sk_41Y&refer=asia
Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- A Japanese whaling ship that caught on fire in Antarctic waters last week may re-start its engines and resume its hunt as soon as today, the vessel's owners said.

Crew on the Nisshin Maru found damage to the engines isn't as bad as initially determined, Glenn Inwood, a spokesman for Tokyo-based Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha, said today in Wellington.

``They've pumped out all the water after the fire and are checking the wiring,'' Inwood said. ``It would be ideal if they could get moving today and continue on.''
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The whale hunt wouldn't continue without the Nisshin Maru, Inwood said, as it is the ``processing'' boat where samples are collated and examined. If its engines start without incident today, the fleet could continue trawling the South Ocean until the middle of March, he added.

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bastards...how do they sleep?

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[Canuckistanian]

3. Samples collated? Examined? For what purpose?

They don't seem to be interested in the preservation, management or study of these animals. Profit seems to be the only motive.

This is sick.

[Judi Lynn]

4. A whole lot of people have discovered they can live without consciences.

Makes things so much simpler, as it seems. No pesky soul-searching any more, no heart-wrenching sadnesses, sorrows, dispairs, and fears of retribution looming in the future.

I wonder if they even bother to go through the motions of their pretense any longer, like the Enron people pretending when visitors came, to be conducting business when they weren't, but creating an elaborate show.

[saigon68]

9. They want to EAT the samples

[rumpel]

5. The plan is 850 Minke Whales and 10 Fin Whales

this is not research - as we all know..

Fin Whales are endangered

[tilman]

6. but they are not able to move right now

for me it's just not understandable why they are still in the ross sea. they had the chance to get out towed by the greenpeace ship esperanza... So why staying in that area?
Maybe you have a look on http://whales.greenpeace.org/ to see what's on in the ross sea!

hope that they got it and stop whaling right now.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Thanks for the link, tilman.

If only they'd see the light. It seems already too late, and getting far later every moment.

Welcome to D.U. :hi: :hi: :hi:

[Judi Lynn]

8. NZ WARNING TO JAPAN OVER WHALING SHIP

NZ WARNING TO JAPAN OVER WHALING SHIP
Posted at 3:35pm on 20 Feb 2007

New Zealand has warned Japan its whaling programme could come under fresh international scrutiny if a disabled vessel in its fleet leaks oil.

The Nisshin Maru has been disabled since Thursday morning after a fire in its engine room.

Prime Minister Helen Clark said the factory ship should be towed out of the area as quickly as possible.

The BBC reports she warned of an international backlash if the Nisshin Maru causes an environmental disaster.

Miss Clark is angry that the Japanese refused an offer of help from Greenpeace, whose protest ship, Esperanza, arrived at the scene on Saturday morning.
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http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/latest/200702201535/nz_warning_to_japan_over_whaling_ship

[tilman]

10. ask japan to accept greenpeace offer to tow nisshin maru

according to your article you can get active! sounds got,doesn't it? So just send the japanese a mail! http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/greenpeace-assists-whalers170206/japan-accept-greenpeace-tow
so here we go!

[Judi Lynn]

14. Thanks for mentioning the petition. Very glad to sign it. n/t

[The Stranger]

11. ARG! Hoist the Jolly Roger! Thar she Leaks!

Stand by to Ram!

(to quote another DUer)

[Zachstar]

12. My god they wont even return for repairs and return of the body?

Or will they simply dump him in the sea and continue the hunt out of pure greed.

This is beyond insane and it is clear to everyone that this fake research front is a cover for pure whaling. And at this rate of risk the ship poses.. Well I think its time for NZ to intervene forcibly and drive the fleet out.

[Coventina]

13. Well, we can see now how much that lost crew member meant to them.

:eyes:

"Keep on slaughtering the whales, at whatever risk....It's what he would have wanted."


:puke:

[Eugene]

15. Reuters: Japanese whaler may move, activists fear oil spill

Japanese whaler may move, activists fear oil spill
21 Feb 2007 09:01:39 GMT
Source: Reuters

TOKYO, Feb 21 (Reuters) - A Japanese whaling ship stranded off
Antarctica could move on its own power within several days, an
official said, but anti-whaling activists warned that
environmental disaster still looms.

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Japan has rejected offers of towing from environmental watchdog
Greenpeace in favour of attempting repairs, and Fisheries Agency
official Hideki Moronuki said that by Wednesday afternoon the
engine and the radar systems were both running.

"We still need to check other systems, but the ship could move
under its own power in a couple of days," he said.

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He added that it was still too early to say where the ship might
head once it can move, including whether or not it would continue
the annual hunt Japan calls scientific research whaling.

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Full article: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/T164586.htm

[tilman]

16. just see it on this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VFn2sDysKI

it's day six for the nisshin maru to be out of power. i think it's really time for the Japanese to get out of the ross sea... so if an Japanese official is reading this: Just get out of Antarctica and get out of whaling!!!!

[Plutonium Page]

17. And here's my dKos diary about it

It's everyone's chance to take a virtual trip to the Southern Oceans, and help Greenpeace!

For your cyberaction fun, click the link:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/2/21/85943/9435

It's like the Howard Dean "hit my bat", ha ha.

[Judi Lynn]

18. Kick!

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[Judi Lynn]

19. Engine Started on Crippled Whaling Ship

Feb 21, 6:25 PM EST

Engine Started on Crippled Whaling Ship

By RAY LILLEY
Associated Press Writer

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Repair crews have restarted the main engine of a Japanese whaling ship crippled by a fire a week ago near Antarctica, but the vessel has not yet moved under its own power, an official said Thursday.

The Nisshin Maru was stricken by a fire last Thursday that killed one crew member, burned out its main switchboards and engulfed its whale processing deck. The cause of the fire has not been determined.

The ship's engine was started overnight, said Glenn Inwood, spokesman for the Japanese Institute of Cetacean Research.

"The last report we had ... was that the engine was going. They'd replaced all the wiring, and checked all the gauges and the mechanics of it - and kicked the old girl into gear," Inwood told New Zealand's National Radio.

"It hasn't moved yet, it's still undergoing safety checks (and) they hope to make some decision to move it today," he said.

Inwood added that if the processing deck, where whales are cut up, wasn't repaired, then the hunt for 945 whales under Japan's so-called "scientific whaling" program was likely over.
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/ANTARCTICA_WHALING_SHIP?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-02-21-18-25-55

[tilman]

20. Dear Mister Inwood, what are you talking about

i'm sorry but i can no longer rely on what this guy is saying. He is so far away from the nisshin maru and he is talking just non-sense!!! Look at what the esperanza crew is saying, which are in the ross sea in contact with the crew on the nisshin maru!

http://weblog.greenpeace.org/oceandefenders/archive/2007/02/sorry_mr_inwood_could_you.html

so Mister Inwood stop telling lies!!