Sunday, January 13, 2008
WHALE POINTS
War continues between Greenpeace and their Sea Shepherd rivals as both seek credit for menacing Japanese whalers. The SS are upset that Greenpeace won’t reveal the whalers’ location, but claim to have enemy support:
“We have our sources in Greenpeace. There are quite a few disgruntled Greenpeacers who are opposed to Greenpeace’s policy of non-cooperation. They are being very helpful,” said Captain Watson.
But who needs Greenpeace double agents when the whales themselves are volunteering their whaley detection abilities:
Greenpeace declined to comment on Esperanza’s position, but the western location confirmed Sea Shepherd president Paul Watson’s belief that the whalers were likely to be working north of Prydz Bay, in the Co-operation Sea, where he was headed.
He also said a whale showed him the way. “Yesterday a large humpback whale surfaced beside the Steve Irwin and seven times raised his long flipper into the air, and seven times brought it down pointing in a direction due west, as if to say ‘go this way’."
Possibly. Or perhaps that alert humpback was warning everybody to stay away from Greenpeace engineer Bent:
The only smell that turns me on is the smell of diesel. This is why, especially at night, I used to go down to the Engine Room, stroke my engines, then dip my hands into the diesel. Unfortunately, I was caught in action one night, so I had to think of other ways to make it look more “natural”. This is why every now and again, I start breaking engines into pieces, only to reassemble them again. Not that there is anything wrong with our propulsion system on board, or because of lack of maintenance, but this is the only way for me to get my hands dirty in diesel oil.
He’s German.
(Via Adrian the Cabbie)
UPDATE. Dave S.:
Yeah, verily did the leviathan seven times raise his flipper, and verily did he let it drop seven times, and by this reckoning didst we follow, for yea, it was like unto a sign from the Lord. Amen.
And Dean:
And lo, the whaleth pointeth the way to the yellow brick road, not seven times, but I sayeth unto you, seventy times seven times!