POSTS TAGGED: the nisshin maru

Whale Wars

The final showdown, without anything actually resembling a showdown


Whale Wars

Despite their best efforts, Sea Shepherd doesn’t manage to lose the mothership.


Whale Wars

To open Week 9 of our ten-episode season, the Gojira has just come upon the Nisshin Maru. It’s the mothership of the Japanese whaling fleet. If Sea Shepherd prevents it from loading whale carcasses onto its slipway, all whaling operations will come to a halt and the campaign will be over. Sea Shepherd has been [...]


Whale Wars

We’re all very tired


Whale Wars

Jereth Cutestory would have a field day with this


Whale Wars

In which multiple references to Indiana Jones are made


Whale Wars

Today’s lesson: anger the machines, get whales killed


Whale Wars

Whalers pull the ol’ Harpoon Ship Switcheroo and a Animal Planet slogan contest!


Whale Wars

Last week, when Sea Shepherd was zeroing in on the Japanese whaling fleet only one episode into the season, I was worried that we had a kind of Whale Wars on our hands. Sea Shepherd knows what it’s doing. It’s even badass. Had the show somehow become about a bunch of people…succeeding? It didn’t sound [...]


Whale Wars

In season 4, Sea Shepherd breaks out its most shocking weapon yet: competence


Whale Wars

Part One: The Penultimate Showdown…


Whale Wars

You’ve been waiting for it. Here it is.


Whale Wars

How can a “between battles” episode still be SO AWESOME?!