Anti-Whaling Group Using Drones To Find Whalers

FatLittleMonkey writes "Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd is using aerial drones to find and track factory ships used by Japanese whalers. The group claims the tactic shortened the Japanese whaling season last year by a month, saving 200 whales, and this year they've spotted the factory ship even earlier."

Comments

These guys are like pirates

[Anonymous Coward]

The crew of the Sea Shepherd have steered themselves into collision courses with other vessels, attempted to board other boats and thrown acid onto the decks of other ships.

Those guys are pirates that endanger the lives of fishermen who are just doing their jobs.

I'm concerned about what they will end up using the drones for.

Re:Looks like drones aren't just for governments.

[John Pfeiffer]

You obviously haven't seen these little pricks. They're spoiled rich kids playing pirate. I seriously doubt they'll feel the loss of a couple cheap UAVs.

After all, they didn't seem to care much when they lost their uber stealth boat thing, after RAMMING A WHALING VESSEL with it and claiming the whaling vessel rammed THEM.

These people piss me the hell off. I couldn't care less about whaling one way or the other, but whenever I hear about these assholes in the news, it makes me think "Plate me up some whale meat! YEAHHH!"

Kind of like the reaction I have to anything PETA does. "Sea kittens? Sounds tasty! WHAT NOW, BITCHES?"