Posted on 01/05/2010 10:12:48 PM PST by naturalman1975
Sea Shepherd couldn’t keep that hotrod out of the way of a plodding whaling ship? Is there no end to their incompetence?
‘All six crew members have been rescued.’
Pity.
Playing “chicken” in open seas is a bitch when you’re the smaller vessel.
Good!...
You beat me to it.
I guarantee you any footage will be mercilessly edited to show it was the whaler's fault.
This is good.
Here is an article from last month.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408740/posts
Note this comment:
“Despite the beefed-up security, Watson said he was confident of disrupting the hunt for a sixth year, saying the activists had a futuristic powerboat which would be able to outrun the ships and block their harpoons. “It’ll be our interceptor vessel, I think it will make a big difference,” he said.”
Looks like the Japanese were ready for their futuristic powerboat. And note freepers had fully predicted this outcome.
Good! Keep the eco-nutters wasting their money.
Ady Gil = Gay Dil
The guy running Sea Shepherd, Paul Watson, is a certifiable lunatic. Greenpeace threw him out of their organization in the 1970’s for being too extreme (think about that). Here’s a brief history of some of the crap Sea Shepherd has pulled:
http://www.highnorth.no/Library/Movements/Sea_Shepherd/se-sh-re.htm
Note the attacks on non-whaling fishing vessels and the use of MINES to sink one whaler. This guy is the Unabomber on a boat, folks.
"Research"
I have no love for whalers, but the video at the link seems to show the protest boat speeding up along the port side of the Japanese ship and then attempting to cut across its bow.
Apparently, the helmsman of the protest boat tried to cut it too fine in order to make the Japanese change course, and didn’t judge the numbers right — or was hoping to get hit.
The idea that the Japanese intentionally rammed the boat is as ludicrous as the Chinese claim that the P-3 rammed their fighter.
Don't bring a bullhorn to a harpoon gun fight. Hahahaha
The Japanese stayed on course, and the Ady Gil deliberately crossed their T at point blank range.
The crew of the Ady Gil carried out this insane act of aggression in a lethally unforgiving part of the Ocean. They should be tried and hung as pirates.
I agree, I caught it on the news this morning and started cracking up when I saw what they did. There is no question that they intentionally sank their own boat, they ran it right into the front of the whaler, completely intentional. They tried to use the excuse that the engine died, but they sure got it in reverse and backed away the instant it took the very tip of their bow off.
My wife won't let me watch their show on TV anymore, she is tired of me yelling "SINK THEM, just turn AND SINK THEM!" and waking the kids up...
I absolutely despise the “save the whales” crowd. These people are terrorists/pirates, shoot them and throw them overboard to the sharks!
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