One time while watching CNN on TV, a special footage came into view. Clearly the film shows a male crewmember of a fishing vessel standing ready on the prow with hands clasping the trigger of the explosive harpoon on board. The ship was actually going after a large Minke Whale and the person with the harpoon was just preparing to shoot, when suddenly two smaller boats with yellow "green peace" letters and sporting a large and yellow
custom boat flag crossed the path of the ship.
So, naturally with them (small boats) distracting the line of sight of the harpoon, the crewmember could not shoot because he might hit the boats instead. I found this really very dangerous for the crews of the boat, putting their own lives at stake to save the lives of the whales. Eventually, the crewmember with the harpoon tagged the whale on the head and it screamed like a woman in pain.
The experience gave a disturbing effect, particularly with the crews of the boat jumping into the back of the dying whale and offering a form of protection that becomes too little and too late. I was misty-eyed looking at the scene and with the cameras focused on the message of the yellow
custom flags "save the whales," I pondered for a moment - how could we do such a thing?
I opened my laptop and scanned the story about whaling and found out that the Minke
Whale I saw slaughtered in the high seas was not part of the endangered species, but by the way we hunt these behemoths they will be extinct in a few decades.
Well, I further found out that whale meat is a delicacy in Japan, Norway and the rest hunting the mammal.
by:
The Flagman
