We’ll deploy our water-jet-propelled inflatable boats to disrupt their hunting. I will put my inflatable directly between any whale and their 100-pound, steel-shank, explosive-tipped harpoons. Each explosive on these is more powerful than a replica Breitling B1335653-C6-372A Men's watch grenade and they’ll sometimes shoot seven harpoons at one whale before then firing rifles that are like elephant guns at the whale’s head. Ultimately they end up dragging them by the tail until the whale drowns.Outside: How does the fact that Japan says these hunts are all done for scientific research affect your thoughts on whether you should actively disrupt their efforts?Hanson:
This so-called science has already been dismissed as useless by the International Whaling Commission. They urged the Japanese government to replica Breitling Windrider Chronomat Evolution cease and desist. The Japanese claim that they need to collect earwax samples in order to understand the whales’ mortality rates. So in order to study whale mortality, they kill whales? Every single thing we need to know about whales we can learn without killing them. We [Greenpeace] have tagged whales with satellite transmitters and then followed their migration patterns throughout the oceans.
We’ve learned a lot already, and all of it without exploding-tip harpoons.Watch the video below, narrated by Heath, about an up close and personal encounter with Humpback Whales. (Note: under international pressure Japan has relented on its earlier plan to replica Breitling A3235011-B7 Men's watch also kill 50 humpback whales this season.) Or, learn more about minke hunting in this Outside feature on Norwegian whalers, Bloody Business (May, 2006).China will soon become the latest nation to ban free, flimsy plastic shopping bags in an effort to conserve resources and reduce waste.
