I saw an episode...my take?

Considering how much money the Sea Shepherds obviously have (did you get a load of that boat?), you'd think they'd be smart enough to put at least ten minutes into training the "crew" before putting to sea...

The "crew" was a bunch of completely untrained and inexperienced hippies who couldn't even launch the Zodiacs without completely making a mockery of it...they ended up with one dude with a broken hand, and one woman with a broken pelvis.

It took them so long to launch the boats that they never even caught up with the whaling ship that they had on visual, but soon lost...though that might be in part that the sonar/radar guy had never even been on a ship in his life before leaving port for that trip.

Watson wouldn't put himself on the launch because he was afraid of what they'd do to him if they caught him...so instead he sent an entire boarding crew of women, mostly on their first boat ride ever.

When everything went sideways...and everything did go sideways...it was like a reality show, with interviews of each crew member whining about it and blaming it on someone else.

They have no discipline, no chain of command, no experience, and no qualified leadership...not exactly a recipe for much success.

Whatever good they cause by getting national TV exposure is at best being countermanded by how ridiculous they look...at best...in my estimation they are doing harm to actual environmental activism performed by professionals, not a bunch of self righteous and whining rich hippy kids.

Fish on...

Todd