‘Slaughterhouse’: Woman’s mission to bring down whalers (Video)
Tegan Annett
FOR 65 days, Seventeen Seventy woman Wyanda Lublink has scoured the southern Antarctic seas for illegal Japanese whalers.
As the captain of MV Steve Irwin, Wyanda is leading Sea Shepherd’s 11th campaign, Operation Nemesis, to stop the harpooning of whales by the Japanese.
Messaging The Observer from the vessel, the 1770 LARC skipper said their main focus was monitoring the Nisshin Maru, also known as “the Slaughterhouse”.
Still enraged by the discovery of a harpooned whale on board the Japanese ship in January, the former Agnes Water woman wants to see the Australian Government take action against illegal whaling.
She and the volunteer crew on MV Steve Irwin put themselves in the firing line, literally, to save whales from a bloodied death.
So far they have covered 8,500 nautical miles.
“We will always try to stop the harpoon vessels from killing any whales by using our ships, the MV Steve Irwin and Ocean Warrior, and we can use our small boats and even our helicopter”, she said. …
Central Queensland news – 5th Feb 2017 5:12 PM
www.cqnews.com.au/news/slaught…
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