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A total of 14 crew members-camera operators, sound engineers, and producers-were aboard the three vessels this season.
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There's another crew on board who are subject to the Sea Shepherds' vegan meals and sometimes dangerous decisions about confronting the whalers: the TV crew. McCuaig, who served as a rescue swimmer and quartermaster on the Sea Shepherd ship Bob Barker (named for its game show host benefactor, who gave $5 million for its purchase), said, "We're down here to save the whales, not to make a television show."Īlthough she's watched only five episodes, and knows that the show compresses time-Bronstein points out that there are 2,000 hours of footage to make 10 episodes of television, each about 43 minutes-McCuaig said, "It is a very, very good portrayal of what happens down there." "Sometimes, we're a little too used to it," and people "say things they probably shouldn't."įiona McCuaig, a crew member on her second tour, echoed non-activist reality stars' experience in front of cameras, she said, "For the first couple of weeks, you are a bit conscious of it," but that fades.
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"For the most part, crews are oblivious to the fact that they're there," Watson said.
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Watson said that the Animal Planet series has had "enormous impact on Sea Shepherd and on increasing international public awareness," and that includes increasing crew applications, which has given him a "much more dedicated, much more passionate crew." And the cameras don't get in the way. It's the passion and courage that the volunteers bring to the table that really makes a big difference." Watson is unconcerned with criticism of their missteps and said, "I couldn't pay people to take the kind of risks that these volunteers take. Staffed with a mostly volunteer crew, much of the drama-and entertainment-comes from their incompetence. It is not always a flattering portrayal of the activists. Its volunteer crew are amateurs, and their inexperience often leads to dramatic moments. Much of the show’s excitement actually doesn't come from the confrontations, as brutal as they can be, but from the actions of the crew aboard Sea Shepherds' boats, including its flagship, the Steve Irwin, named after the Crocodile Hunter star. "It's hard to tell a story from the point of view of people who won't talk to you," she said. She is always rejected, and thus Whale Wars focuses on the Sea Shepherds alone. If you don't, you're watching the show, and we love the dialogue it produces and the passion it produces." Sea Shepherd has no editorial control over the series just as the producers, Lizard Trading Company, and the network have no control over the Sea Shepherds' actions.īronstein makes an annual offer to send crews aboard the Japanese whaling fleet or even just interview representatives. The series' executive producer, Liz Bronstein, told me that her show is "an action-adventure series," and producers "never, ever want it to feel like it's propaganda. One volunteer said, "We're down here to save the whales, not to make a television show."
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On TV and in real life, the intensity of the interaction between Sea Shepherd and whalers has increased every season, culminating last season when a Japanese ship rammed into a stationary Sea Shepherd boat, on which its crew and a Whale Wars camera operator were sitting. "Our objective right from the beginning was to sink the Japanese whaling fleet economically, to bankrupt them, and I think we achieved that," he said. Watson said his group's actions "saved 800 whales" this season, and the Japanese fleet actually suspended their hunt early because of their efforts.
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The whalers fight back, with devices such as water cannon and acoustic devices. As the series has explored over its three seasons, the Japanese whaling fleet captures whales under a quota allowed for research Sea Shepherd insists their actions are illegal and does everything it can to find and stop the fleet, from hurling bottles of butyric acid onto the decks of whaling vessels (making whale meat unusable) to attempting to foul the propellers of the whaling ships.