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third season announced  The Sea Shepherd vessel Steve Irwin
collides with the stern of a Japanese harpoon whaling ship in
the Antarctic during last season's campaign.  A record 3.2
million viewers tuned into the season finale of Animal Planet's
"Whale Wars" series last Friday night and, to no one's surprise,
the network announced there will be a third season.  The second
season of "Whale Wars," which profiles the exploits of the Sea
Shepherd Conservation Society as it campaigns against Japanese
whalers in the Antarctic, was Animal Planet's second-best
performing series in network history. The shows were viewed in
an average of 779,000 homes.  The series pits an unwilling
subject -- Japanese whalers -- versus Capt. Paul Watson and a
ragtag vegan crew that engages in disruptive techniques such as
tossing bottles of rancid butter (butyric acid) aboard the
whaling vessels. Last season the