Crew Uses Crazy Futuristic EarthRace Boat and Lasers to Fight Japanese Whalers

Regardless of your feelings about whaling , you have to admit the fight just got a whole heap more interesting . Check out this video of a Sea - Shepherd - man ( fromWhale Wars ) carbon - fiber , biofuel - poweredEarthRace Trimaranblinding a Japanese whaling boat with lasers .

https://gizmodo.com/earthrace-boat-carbon-trimaran-stabs-through-waves-vi-195323

Looks to us like the optical maser is mostly for monition and deterrence , which likely works considering they ’re zoom along around in a ferocious - look 1080 - horsepower , 78 - metrical unit trimaran . The work party manning the EarthRace is the Sea Shepherd guild , which you might have a go at it from Whale Wars , where they ’re usually getting outwitted and outgunned in a boat nowhere near as cool as this one . The MV Steve Irwin , which is the ship followed by Whale Wars , travels a maximum of 16.5 mi — this EarthRace hits 50 , which actually lets them dog down and intercept whalers . [ StokeReport ]