Japanese Whaling Ship Bugged
Remember when members of the radical animal rights group Sea Shepherd illegally boarded a Japanese ship last month to “deliver a letter” informing the crew of an Australian court ruling against Japanese whaling? Now they’re claiming that they planted tracking devices on the Japanese ships:
Watson said two crew from his protest ship Steve Irwin covertly planted tracking devices on the harpoon ship Yushin Maru No.2 when they boarded it mid-ocean on January 15, sparking a three-day standoff as they were held on board.
“They weren’t kept locked up, It seems strange, but they were able to move about the ship,” Watson said. He also hinted other homing devices had been planted on some or all of the six-ship fleet, either at sea on in port before leaving Japan.
“It’s not just the Yushin Maru, which they’re probably ripping to pieces right now,” he said. “We were able to do more than one. We’re pretty much able to track the entire fleet.”
