FP,

That's not waste my good man! That boat's for covert ops to keep tabs on those whale watching boats and make sure they stay the mandatory 200 yards away from the endangered whales. I bet the flat screen was for reviewing the day's videos and re-measuring how close those dangerous whale watchers were getting to the whales.

The older I get the more I'm convinced that the reason the public has so little respect for government agencies is exactly because there are always just enough staff or policy level people who are either dumb enough or arrogant enough to pull the stunts that earn public scorn.

Sg