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Down Under
Pirates use drone to track whaling fleet
2011-12-25
SEA SHEPHERD anti-whaling pirates say they have intercepted a Japanese whaling fleet using a military-style R/C model plane.
A Sea Shepherd Buccaneer Society media huckster said they caught up with the fleet 1600 kilometres outside Antarctic waters yesterday.
Captain Paul "Blackbeard" Watson said it would be a long and arduous pursuit to the coast of Antarctica but by using the drone technology, distances could be covered more quickly and there would be some cool aerial video for the media sponsors.

''We now have an advantage we have never had before - a Wal-Mart charge card providing eyes in the sky. We can cover hundreds of miles with these drones and they have proven to be valuable assets, even though groupies are not impressed with them.''
Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy

#5  Have they thought about using Google Earth? It's free...
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-12-25 23:36  

#4  Better yet spoof the signal and give the wrong location.

Would be cool to have the sea shepard rush to a whaling operation only to run around or hit an Iceberg or something.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2011-12-25 22:49  

#3  The ironic thing is that whale herds have recovered to pre-whaling numbers in many areas of the globe. It would actually do the herd good to cull older animals. We are going to end up with boom/bust cycles if they are allowed to overpopulate their food supply, as likely happened before humans started taking them.

I am willing to bet that within 30 years or so we will begin to see large numbers of dead whales washing up or finding large numbers of emaciated, diseased whales due to overgrazing of their food supply.
Posted by: crosspatch   2011-12-25 21:43  

#2  It would be even funnier if the drone did an unexplained kamikazi number on the Sea Shepherd, 'moose. :-D
Posted by: Barbara   2011-12-25 21:29  

#1  They seriously think they can out-technology the Japanese? I strongly suspect that the whalers are soon to get some of the most interesting commercial ECM on the market. Imagine how amusing it would be if all the navigational equipment on the Sea Shepherd started spinning in a circle?
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-12-25 21:06  

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