Sea Shepherd wants to force costly coastguard protection for all whalers. And whalers this year have to pay war risk insurance premiums, partly after Watson's group tried to sink a whaling vessel in port. Watson said that Whales Forever was armed with nothing more dangerous than stink bombs. Greenpeace also has a vessel, the Solo, off southern Norway awaiting whaling boats. Another Greenpeace vessel, the Sirius, is in Denmark for minor repairs after clashes with a whaling vessel and Norway's coastguard this week.
Norwegian whalers denounce all the activists as pirates or clowns.