Sea Shepherd was not responsible for the sinking of the Ady Gil, the whalers were. the whalers intentionally rammed and sank the Ady Gil, they ignored its mayday call, and once it was reported as sunk the whalers found it and cut pieces of the hull of of it. Sea Shepherd hasnt lost a life at sea ever! And what aout you whalers, you have lost 3, 2 to a fire, 1 to falling overboard, each the whalers fault, and the whalers alone. Greenpeace is a protest group, Sea Shepherd actually DOES something instead of hanging signs.

Kimitake – you are a PR puppet for the ICR.

Ah yes, just imagine all the leaflets, meetings, and generally useless activity Greenpeace could have done with all that money eh? Greenpeace have been working on stopping whaling for longer than SSCS and have achieved absolutely nothing so far. They rarely get media attention anymore, probably using the excuse that they are ‘working behind the scenes to reach a politically acceptable solution’.

But time is running out and at least Pete B, Ady Gil and the rest of SSCS are managing to keep the issue in the forefront of the public eye on a global basis.

In fact, picking up on your point about it being a waste of time and money, I suspect analysis would show that the money spent on Ady Gil is far outweighed by the value of the coverage so far.