Whale Wars "Season 4 Premiere

Whale Wars "Season 4 Premiere: If you define fact TV by Snooki, Boston Rob and overweight folks shedding half their weight, be clear: you've other picks for real life television. There's some seriously high drama, on the high seas, with human and whale lives at stake. You just need to know where to find it. Animal Planet’s “Whale Wars” began season 4 tonight. The show is part documentary, part fact, and one giant part social activism vehicle. It’s based on the organization, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and its quest to save whales in the Antarctic waters. At the helm of the project: a founding member of Greenpeace, Paul Watson. He was asked at the start of the show, as the fleet was getting under way to leave Hobart, Australia to stop the whale fisherman, “You can not stop whaling, right?” His response: “You can not stop slavery, that’s what they said once. This season is “Operation No Compromise.” The star of the show unveils the latest member of the 3 ship fleet, the Gojira, a state-of-the-art stealth machine that replaces the Ady Gil, which sunk later colliding with a whaling ship last season. It’s captained by Lockhart Maclean. The older members of the fleet are ships called the Steve Irwin and the Bob Barker (yes, named later that Bob Barker, an animal activist, who's said to have donated money to the Sea Shepherd’s campaign. Bob Barker is an older ship - and the early show drama tonight surrounds it losing its umph. Captain Alex Cornelissen fights to keep it going during the travel. There’s a fuel leak, and the when the ship’s engineer goes to investigate in the bowels of the vessel, he gets a bump on the head, leaving him with a stream of blood dripping across his balding head. The ship is good, and the blood is cleaned up. Navigating icebergs of tremendous beauty, the Sea Shepherd team on the three ships, later 6 days of travel, reaches the Antarctic Ocean. They begin searching for the few whaling trips they expect to be trolling those waters. There’s urgency because each day they wait and look, they say whales are taken from the waters. But it is a needle in a haystack - the Sea Shepherd knows the whalers are in the water somewhere, but they've no idea where exactly to find them. They focus on an area in which whales feed on shrimp. And they find one ship. Later a week at sea, there’s a harpoon ship in their sites. And then the entire fleet, a finding that usually takes weeks to discover. There are 3 types of ships in the fleet, which is apparently Japanese. There are security ships to guard the fleet and harpoon ships to kill the whales. There are also factory ships which process the catch and the key target for Sea Shepherd. If they can cut the factory ships off, the meat can not be processed. A helicopter is dispatched once they find the fleet to do some recon and the Sea Shepherd fleets get ready to approach in the water, but snow keeps the chopper grounded on the ship, leaving just eyeballs to catch the whaling ships.Whale Wars "Season 4 Premiere