Sea Shepard Boat sunk

[LizardKing]

Certainly against whaling!
But Sea Shepard do themselves no favours with there methods.

 

[Col_M]

They was dead in the water that's why the japs got it.
Wish people would read the news ....

I did read the BBC article and it said nothing about being dead in the water. To be honest they would claim that they couldn't move as it absolves them of responsibility and goes with the typical "we're never wrong" standpoint of the eco types.

 

[Glaucus]

Certainly against whaling!
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Why it makes no rational semnse and is just emotional rubbish.

their stocks are plentiful to re-allow whaling on a larger scale. They are no different to any other fish/animal. If you want to get all emotional, go campaign about Cod.

 

[Amp34]

The smaller boat was moving under it's own power at the time, or at least moving (the wake behind it shows that), which means that it would have had at least rudimentary directional control.

That wake was more of an engine idling/out of gear or even off completely. It was not moving at the time, however whether it could have moved is another question entirely.[/QUOTE]

 

[-Ad-]

It wouldn't surprise me if the Sea Shepherd crew put it on a collision course and left it idling on purpose,

Good post and very true about their competance, but they clearly don't have the intelligence to do that

 

[Sparky__H]

Are you guys watching the same video?

By 21 seconds in the Sea Hippies have the engines on full throttle and move into the path of the ship.

The whaling ship was turning but it was keeping the same degree of turn through the whole manoeuvre making a collision easily avoidable.

Yep at 17 seconds in they gun the engines and try to cut off the ship and fail miserably.

 

[chrisd]

The smaller boat was moving under it's own power at the time, or at least moving (the wake behind it shows that)

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[Glaucus]

That wake was more of an engine idling/out of gear or even off completely. It was not moving at the time, however whether it could have moved is another question entirely.

It could have and big ships have right of way. they were trying to force it off route and failed... You have have to laugh at the scum bags.

 

[deuse]

The smaller boat was moving under it's own power at the time, or at least moving (the wake behind it shows that), which means that it would have had at least rudimentary directional control.

The Japanese vessel would have had a much harder time trying to avoid it, than the smaller one would the Japanese ship (it takes a rather long time to turn a big, heavy boat).

It wouldn't surprise me if the Sea Shepherd crew put it on a collision course and left it idling on purpose, as IIRC they've tried ramming/intimidating the Japanese ships with their bigger boats, and they constantly try to put their smaller boats in the way of the Japanese boats to get them to change course.

Wish you would read about it before saying things

"According to eyewitness Captain Chuck Swift on the Bob Barker, the attack happened while the vessels were dead in the water.
The Shonan Maru No. 2 suddenly started up and deliberately rammed the Ady Gil ripping eight feet of the bow of the
vessel completely off. According to Captain Swift, the vessel does not look like it will be saved."

In other words they did not have the power to maneuver out to get of the way fast enough.

 

[RDM]

I did read the BBC article and it said nothing about being dead in the water. To be honest they would claim that they couldn't move as it absolves them of responsibility and goes with the typical "we're never wrong" standpoint of the eco types.

Looking at the youtube vid in the second post they didn't look dead in the water, it even looks like signs of acceleration just before the jap boat hits. The BBC article states that the Sea Shepard people claim their boat was "sliced in half" which is also somewhat of an exaggeration.

 

[JudgeC]

It's about time the world woke up and did something about this charade by Japan involving hunting whales for scientific purposes.

Frankly I would send out a Wolfpack of our finest U-Boats and do some scientific research on the effects of Torpedo's on Japanese whaling vessels.

 

[Glaucus]

And you are taking a sea Sheppard personal as granted.. They will say any thing and lie.

It's about time the world woke up and did something about this charade by Japan involving hunting whales for scientific purposes.

No, it is time to re-allow whaling, they are no longer under threat and have a sufficient population to restart controlled whaling. To much emotional rubbish, whales are no different to any other animal/fish we kill.

At least go protest about over fishing species that are in danger.

Frankly I would send out a Wolfpack of our finest U-Boats and do some scientific research on the effects of Torpedo's on sea sheppard vessels.

Fixed

 

[Sin_Chase]

Because the eyewitness of another SS ship is going to be 100% unbias.....

Telling me that whaling ship can start up, pick up momentum and intentionally ram that small powerboat?

If it can, they intentionally sat there.

 

[LizardKing]

Why it makes no rational semnse and is just emotional rubbish.

their stocks are plentiful to re-allow whaling on a larger scale. They are no different to any other fish/animal. If you want to get all emotional, go campaign about Cod.

Not emotional at all.

Maybe you should look into the techniques of how they kill the whales.

 

[RDM]

Wish you would read about it before saying things

"According to eyewitness Captain Chuck Swift on the Bob Barker, the attack happened while the vessels were dead in the water.
The Shonan Maru No. 2 suddenly started up and deliberately rammed the Ady Gil ripping eight feet of the bow of the
vessel completely off. According to Captain Swift, the vessel does not look like it will be saved."

In other words they did not have the power to maneuver out to get of the way fast enough.

Alternatively he could be lying.

 

[Sin_Chase]

Not emotional at all.

Maybe you should look into the techniques of how they kill the whales.

Able to suggest something more viable?

 

[deuse]

I did read the BBC article and it said nothing about being dead in the water. To be honest they would claim that they couldn't move as it absolves them of responsibility and goes with the typical "we're never wrong" standpoint of the eco types.

Why don't you just google to find out the facts?

 

[deuse]

their stocks are plentiful to re-allow whaling on a larger scale. They are no different to any other fish/animal. If you want to get all emotional, go campaign about Cod.

Link please and make it upto date one.

 

[Amp34]

Why it makes no rational semnse and is just emotional rubbish.

their stocks are plentiful to re-allow whaling on a larger scale. They are no different to any other fish/animal. If you want to get all emotional, go campaign about Cod.

But the Japanese aren't hunting the hugely plentiful whales, well not just them anyway. They also hunt others that are threatened. The killing of the animal is also very inhumane (taking tens of minutes to die, essentially drowning and being blown up) and to top it off most of the meat they get isn't sold, it's just left to freeze and or be thrown away!

The Japanese don't actually eat whale meat that much (certainly less than is caught yearly) and the only reason I can see that it does on year on year is because the Japanese don't want to loose face and admit that commericial whaling on a large scale is not needed. They carry on under the pretence that it is tradition, which is also a fallacy, the majority of the Japanese only started eating Whale meat after the second world war, when they couldn't afford beef, now they can no-one (except a small number on one of the northern islands) wants whale meat when they can have beef...

 

[Glaucus]

Not emotional at all.

Maybe you should look into the techniques of how they kill the whales.

I know exactly how they kill them and it is no worse that many foods people find totally acceptable.

Just because they are big and seen as friendly. It's the whole cute bunny rabbit syndrome.