Canadian Coast Guard Incompetence Kills Four Sealers
 

http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_080329_1.html

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has previously warned the Canadian
government that it was irresponsibly allowing wooden hulled non-ice-
class vessels to participate in the seal slaughter. Last year, many of
these vessels were damaged, and a few were crushed in the ice and
lost.

This year, the Canadian government's irresponsibility has resulted in
a major tragedy.

Last night, four Magadalen Island sealers died when their 12 metre
sealing boat capsized while being towed by a Canadian Coast Guard
icebreaker.

The boat had lost steerage about 40 miles North of Cape Breton Island.
The Canadian Coast Guard responded to its distress signal and placed
the vessel under tow.

Captain Paul Watson, Founder and President of Sea Shepherd and a
former member of the Canadian Coast Guard, said, I find it incredible
that the Coast Guard would place a small boat like that in tow behind
a powerful icebreaker in such heavy ice conditions without first
taking the crew onboard. They deliberately placed those men in an
unsafe situation, and there should be a full inquiry into the
circumstances that have led to the deaths of these four men.

Yesterday, over 100 sealers headed out into the Gulf of St. Lawrence
from the Magdalen Islands on 16 small boats. In addition to the one
that has already sunk, three other sealing vessels are in trouble in
the waters off Cape Breton, with two of them taking on water and the
third broken down with mechanical problems.

In his efforts to further his own political ambitions, Loyola Hearn is
sending these sealers into treacherous ice conditions in unsafe
vessels, and the Canadian government has demonstrated that they do not
have the resources to come to their rescue efficiently, said Captain
Watson. It appears that the government is more concerned about keeping
Sea Shepherd from documenting the slaughter of seals than they are
about protecting the lives of Canadian fishermen.

Sea Shepherd's ship, the Farley Mowat, is working its way through the
ice of the Gulf of St. Lawrence towards the area where the seals are
being killed. This will bring Sea Shepherd into contact with the
sealing vessels caught in the ice.

We will of course rescue any sealers should they require help, said
Captain Watson. Unlike the sealers and the government of Canada, the
Sea Shepherd crew is motivated by both mercy and compassion and a
respect for all life including the lives of those who inflict pain,
suffering, and death upon the most innocent of animals the seal pups.

At the same time that the search for the bodies was taking place, the
Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans dispatched a plane to fly
over the Farley Mowat to once again order us out of Canadian waters.

I am astounded at their priorities, said Captain Alex Cornelissen on
the Farley Mowat. I would have thought that all of their resources
would have been directed at assisting sealing vessels in trouble in
the ice and that harassing Sea Shepherd would be the last of their
worries.

Canadian Coast Guard Incompetence Kills Four Sealers
 

wrote:


This year, the Canadian government's irresponsibility has resulted in
a major tragedy.

Last night, four Magadalen Island sealers died when their 12 metre
sealing boat capsized while being towed by a Canadian Coast Guard
icebreaker.


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Yes, 4,000 dead soldiers was a miserable milestone indeed, one that
doesn't even hint at the roughly 100,000 wounded and brain-damaged and
clinically depressed U.S. soldiers and simply shrugs off the hundreds of
thousands of dead Iraqi civilians, a number which is probably far closer
to 1 million but hey, they're just civilians and they were stupid enough
to live in Iraq in the first place and therefore the military couldn't
care less about them and besides, all those stats are just boring too,
so who's counting?

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Canadian Coast Guard Incompetence Kills Four Sealers
 

On Mar 31, 8:51 pm, m II attempts to change subject:

Yes and the USA's lapdog Canaduh agreed to join and support the war
effort. I was on the streets protesting against the war five years
ago. So what has either to do with Canada's seal pup killing.

What a lame effort to divert the thread from Canaduh's annual public
relations debacle of animal cruelty for MONEY. Nice try. And you are
what passes for an "intellectual" in Canaduh? Wow, things are worse
than I thought up in the "great" white north.

Canadian Coast Guard Incompetence Kills Four Sealers
 

Canadian Coast Guard Incompetence Kills Four Sealers
 

Mississippi and Canada (I have posted about that in here before) does a
lot of trade/business. www.devilfinder.com Mississippi and Canada

Alberta is different from Eastern Canada.As different as Montana is from
New England.Gawd, I am Glad I dont live in New England or the left
coast,,, I am Scotch Irish and I HATE England!
cuhulin

Canadian Coast Guard Incompetence Kills Four Sealers
 

Those Freaks in New England and those Freaks over yonder on the left
coast dont talk right either.Left coast, yew = you,, mie = me.New
England, Boston, Pahk da cahr.I am not knockin those freaks, I just dont
like the way they talk and I dont like their accents.Montana 1956, Far =
Fire.Kansas 1957, Shapoo = Shampoo.Screw those Freaks!!!!
cuhulin

Canadian Coast Guard Incompetence Kills Four Sealers
 

I dont like Canadians accents either.I am Highly Preducided.I been
learnin that married Irish woman wayyyy over yonder across the big pond
(via emailing her) how to speak Mississippi Southron.But on the phone,
she loses it.
cuhulin

Canadian Coast Guard Incompetence Kills Four Sealers
 

On Apr 2, 2:27*am, wrote:
I dont like Canadians accents either.I am Highly Preducided.I been
learnin that married Irish woman wayyyy over yonder across the big pond
(via emailing her) how to speak Mississippi Southron.But on the phone,
she loses it.
cuhulin

When I was seventeen, I went to Morehead City, North Carolina, from
my home in the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada. Helped to prepare a
twenty seven foot saiboat. Cleaning and preparing the hull and putting
a Volvo diesel auxillary engine in it.
Spent two weeks there working with some southerners. Somehow I
started talking with a souther accent from hearing and talking with
southerners for that time. I can't fake that accent.... it came
natural. Lost it shortly after getting back to Canada.

Hitchhiked back to Canada, carrying a duffle bag and a suit
case..... got a ride in West Virginia from a guy with a bottle of
whiskey on the seat that was half empty....
He says "Where're you headed?" I said "Canada".
He says "Oh... you got your notice huh?"
He thought I was an American and got my draft notice, and was headed
for Canada to escape the draft.. Vietnam was still going on.
I said, "No. I'm Canadian and headed home" he said "Sure, sure...
you're Canadian....Ha. ha.... ha... "
Had to show him I.D. before he would believe me.

Canadian Coast Guard Incompetence Kills Four Sealers
 

Cato, you ought to try learning the Mississippi accent sometime.
cuhulin

Canadian Coast Guard Incompetence Kills Four Sealers
 

On Apr 2, 2:25*pm, wrote:
Cato, you ought to try learning the Mississippi accent sometime.
cuhulin

Closest I've ever been to Mississippi was Alabama, on our way back to
Canada from Florida, on a family trip back in '63. Still had seperate
washrooms and everything in Alabama. The big civil rights push was
just underway I think. I was only twelve at the time. Can't remember
a lot of the politics at the time. I remember going on that big
battleship in Mobile. The U.S.S. Alabama. Wow... the huge 16 inch
guns...... huge.... like a floating town that ship is.... but a town
built as a fortress.....

Don't know if the Mississippi accent is like the rest of the
south.... but I bet I would love the catfish and cajun food. :) I
tried alligator before.... not bad at all...