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omg sonic beams and lasers

Giant waterfights too:

• Sea Shepherd crew logs season’s first clash with Japanese whalers

First encounter of the season, and it turns into a water cannon battle:

A couple of days later, the Japanese deploy their Long Range Acoustical Device, and Sea Shepherd busts out a laser on them. Oh, and tries to foul their propeller too:

• Sea Shepherd complain about Japan’s ‘military’ fightback
• Sea Shepherd Aim Laser Ray At Japanese Whalers

Judging from that picture, the Steve Irwin’s got some new anti-boarding measures- the yellow spiky things along the side. You can see it better in some other pictures here. Looks like maybe a new hangar for their helicopter, too.

And where’s the Ady Gil during all of this?

• Whale crew return again

Back in port again, it seems. This time their new radar got wiped out by a big wave. That was a couple of days ago, and I can’t find any indication that they’ve sailed yet.