Sea Shepherd vessel Steve Irwin comes to obstruct Japanese ships in missing sailor search

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This video released by Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) shows the Sea Shepherd vessel coming very close to Japanese research vessel Kyoshin Maru 2 while the latter is looking for a missing crewmember. Sea Shepherd pretends that it came to help the Japanese ships in their search. Eventhough its assistance was rejected, the Steve Irwin stayed close to the Japanese boats and announced that it "will restart harassing the whaling vessels once the search is over." Added on January 12th ...