retroremakes
December 31st, 2009, 07:05
Regardless of your feelings about whaling, you have to admit the fight just got a whole lot more interesting. Check out this video of a Sea-Shepherd-manned (from Whale Wars (http://animal.discovery.com/tv/whale-wars/)) carbon-fiber, biofuel-powered EarthRace Trimaran (http://gizmodo.com/195323/earthrace-boat-carbon-trimaran-stabs-through-waves-video) blinding a Japanese whaling boat with lasers.
Looks to us like the laser is mostly for warning and intimidation, which probably works considering they're zooming around in a ferocious-looking 1080-horsepower, 78-foot trimaran. The crew manning the EarthRace is the Sea Shepherd (http://gizmodo.com/tag/seashepherd/) society, which you might know from Whale Wars (http://gizmodo.com/tag/whalewars/), where they're usually getting outwitted and outgunned in a boat nowhere near as cool as this one. The MV Steve Irwin, which is the ship followed by Whale Wars, travels a maximum of 16.5 knots—this EarthRace hits 50, which actually lets them chase down and intercept whalers. [StokeReport (http://stokereport.com/rant/sea-shephard-steps-its-fight-against-japanese-whaling-ships-lasers)]
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Looks to us like the laser is mostly for warning and intimidation, which probably works considering they're zooming around in a ferocious-looking 1080-horsepower, 78-foot trimaran. The crew manning the EarthRace is the Sea Shepherd (http://gizmodo.com/tag/seashepherd/) society, which you might know from Whale Wars (http://gizmodo.com/tag/whalewars/), where they're usually getting outwitted and outgunned in a boat nowhere near as cool as this one. The MV Steve Irwin, which is the ship followed by Whale Wars, travels a maximum of 16.5 knots—this EarthRace hits 50, which actually lets them chase down and intercept whalers. [StokeReport (http://stokereport.com/rant/sea-shephard-steps-its-fight-against-japanese-whaling-ships-lasers)]
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