Uh-oh, Japanese whalers are on a mission and Greenpeace is pissed. After 10 days of searching for Japan's whaling fleet, the Greenpeace ship, the Esperanza located the fleet early this morning after following krill, a whale delicacy.

If the whalers attempt to start hunting the 935 minke whales and 50 fin whales (for the purpose of research) they plan to capture, the group from Greenpeace are prepared to launch inflatable boats they will place between the Japanese harpoons and the whales.

"If they try to start whaling, then we will do everything that we can to take peaceful direct action to stop that," Esperanza crew member Sara Holden told Australian Broadcasting Corp radio.

It's like a real-life version of the old game Battleship out there, though I suppose neither of the ships are actually trying to sink one another -yet. However if the Japanese start to hear rumblings coming from the Esperanza along the lines of "D-9...miss," I might consider abandoning ship (harpoon?) myself.

» Reuters Environment