Anti-whaling superboat sinks after Japanese collision

AFP via Yahoo News ^ | Fri Jan 8, 3:04 am | Talek Harris

[TexasCajun]

AFP/HO/File – This photo, taken on January 6 by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, shows the Sea Shepherd's

[TexasCajun]

Ship of Fools!

[steelyourfaith]

Things that make you go Hmmmmmmm. Who funds a “high-tech protest boat”?

[TexasCajun]

Sea Shepard Capt. Paul Watson, Head Fool! ...risks the lives of his crew.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

Good question.

[BallyBill]

I had to love that South Park had their “Whale Whore” episode about these jerks on Wed nite.

[Houghton M.]

“Sea Shepherd claims to have saved hundreds of whales by chasing the Japanese fleet over a six-year campaign backed by Hollywood A-listers including Sean Penn, Martin Sheen and Pierce Brosnan.”

Who funds it? The usual suspects.

[TexasCajun]

A-List Hollywood types including some guy named Ady Gil who donated this boat.

[TexasCajun]

Paul Watson is such a fool and idiot that even Greenpeace has disowned him.

...now that's bad!

[Mr Ramsbotham]

If that’s the skipper, I’d hate to see the cabin boy.

[Eye of Unk]

Unsinkable? I work on boats and I suspect too much hubris in the design and not enough flotation pockets.

I have seen canoes cut in half that refuse to sink because of built in flotation such as being foam filled.

And this vessel was sent to one of the most dangerous parts on earth?

For whatever “save the whales” aspect this is surely stupidity clouding mens minds.

[Gargantua]

Well, now their little "Bat Boat" can spend the rest of its days among the "World's Most Expensive Man-Made Reefs."

:-)

[Venturer]

Maybe Greenpeace should have named their boat the PT-109, it seems another skipper drove his boat out in front of the Japs during WW2.

[Jeff Gordon]

The Whalers continue to own the protesters. Their tactic of chartering flights to scout out the location protesters’ ships was brilliant. What was even more brilliant was to send out the Shonan Maru 2 as a decoy for the protesters the chase around the empty sea for a couple of weeks.

[bmwcyle]

Never bring fiber glass to a steel fight.

[Rummyfan]

I know why he wants to save the wahles - he is one himself!

Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it!

[BuffaloJack]

What complete moron builds a boat that looks like a whale and then uses it to annoy whalers?

[Doohickey]

Read the story, and your questions will be answered :)

[TexasCajun]

There is a series called Whaling Wars on the cable channel Animal Planet that documents Paul Watson's ego-fueled foolish engagements with the Japanese whaling fleet, risking the lives of his crew.

Whatever merit there is for their anti-whaling effort, it is lost on their pirate mentality and absurd stupidity.

[steelyourfaith]

The question was rhetorical, after all. :)