Ocean Raider: Defenders of the Wild

This documentary is powerful and educational all in the one package. I am surprised no one has posted any user comments for this film and that it hasn't registered many votes. Possibly one of the most underrated documentaries ever made.

Just as one gets a feeling of despair that the human race is determined to strip the oceans bare, enter Paul Watson armed with only the Sea Shepherd to try and make a difference. What ensues is the most dramatic footage of Watson's tactical cat and mouse manoeuvres on the high seas, taunting vessels fishing illegally with banned drift nets. While the Sea Shepherd has no weapons, its bow is packed with concrete, making it an effective battering ram not to be messed with.

What distinguishes this documentary over other nature films, is the high drama that unfolds whenever Watson confronts a vessel fishing illegally. The subsequent stand-off is spectacular. Each manoeuvre requires precision timing, nerves of steel and all the time having to calculate what can be done to be a nuisance. The fact that one mistake could be extremely costly in terms of human lives makes it even more nerve racking.

The underlying theme is all to do with humanity's relentless pursuit of resources for profit and damn the consequences. This documentary may trigger a conscience for those who are unaware of the severe impacts the human species is placing on the world's ecosystems.

I therefore highly rate this documentary, which is not to be missed.

The Vanishing World. We depend on nature and animals to survive. Pollution, eating species into extinction and massacre of environment happens on global scale: sacred and very needed by life on Earth trees are being massacred by human predator. Gold mining, illegal tree cutting, illegal ranching in Amazon already destroyed a lot of sacred trees. Animals' habitat is disappearing with exponential (unbounded) rate. Films: "AMAZON with Bruce Perry", "The End of the Line (2009)". Most vicious predator (human) must learn to stop destroying its own environment. (Aside: the human is most vicious predator because it kills for sports.) While most vicious predator propagates with exponential (unbounded) rate, the nature and animals disappear with exponential rate at the hand of most vicious predator. Most vicious predator must stop unbounded (exponential) reproduction: it leaves no space for healthy environment for most vicious predator and leaves no space for animals. CONSUMPTION is not "cool" anymore. Echo-systems sustain the economies. Economies do not sustain the echo-systems. Bottom-lines and corporations only destroy the nature, environment and animals. In the past, we hoped that our technology would help us to live better lives, but as of today, our technology (better traps, binoculars, nets, better sonars to track our prey, better guns, etc) only leads us to the SIXTH EXTINCTION of all life on the planet, at the hand of the human. If you cannot farm it - do not kill it. If you are religious: "go forth (be fruitful) and multiply" was repealed by Jesus in the new testament just like many such Old Testament "orders/commandments" were repealed by him in new testament (eye for an eye, etc). Even Jesus showed to you that the truths (commandments) must be changed with changing times.