So those Whaling types?

[TheAnimus]

Turns out people who are willing to kill hundreds of whales are also capable of crushing a poxy little 1.5 million trimarang thing.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...nks-antarctica

Now the guardian having an average IQ readership of like 105, most of whom like to think that their better and enlightened is the best place to read comments about this.

But these twatdangles including their 'captain' who gave himself that rank on account of his mastery of the sea skills (make bad call at sea you and your crew die, horribly, and there are tens of thousands of examples of that!) who to promote their dull arse TV show like to say their fighting a war.

Well dip****s, your launch is a valuable weapon in your war surely?

Don't send it up against a bloody whaling boat that can crush it with less effect on its course than changing its ballast.

So if you where stupid enough to give money to them, might i suggest burning it instead.

[schmunk]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_Whores

[Million]

Judging by the footage, the 'security ship' intentionally changed course to collide with the Ady Gil, while that boat was stationary. This makes it rather more likely that:

you and your crew die, horribly

[Perfectionist]

Should torpedo the big steel w'rs, that'd show em No one would die with the amount of life rafts a boat like that has, and they wouldn't be ramming people again.

[Clunk]

[TeePee]

Actually from the footage the Ady Gil quite deliberately drove the bow of their boat under the nose of the less-maneuverable whaling ship in a attempt to create publicity for their multi-million dollar TV show.

Whaling is bad, but these protesters are worse.

[educatedfool]

From this angle ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfj5CpZ6zYY ) it looks as though the whalers rammed the protesters.

[TeePee]

Watch the second angle from the whalers ship. You can see the wake from the Ady Gil as the captain accelerates into the path of the ship.

[Salazaar]

a poxy little 1.5 million trimarang thing.

I'd just like to point out that that poxy little trimaran is the refitted Earthrace which set a world record for circumnavigation in 2008 and is was arguably one of the coolest boats in the world.

Which is why it's all the more stupid for putting it in front of a bloody great whaler like that, what were they expecting?

[Andy3536]

Responsibility for this has to go with the ady gil, it's for the smaller more agile boats to avoid larger ships, and as it was under power heading towards the other vessel, there's no argument. Smaller ships stay away from larger ships.

Stupid captain thinks it's worth risking his life (and the people on his boat) for their crusade. I bet he thought he was being clever with his game of chicken aswell.

[jim]

The Anti-Whaling protesters have been ramming whaling boats for ages, but obviously when it's the other way round it magically becomes big news.

I don't really know what else they were expecting to be honest.

[samcross]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_Wars

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On an unrelated note, what it is up with the design of that thing. Looks like something Batman would use...

[sleepyhead]

I am neither condoning or supporting the act of whaling BUT...

My opinion is that the Ady Gil and the whaling boat "aimed" for each other with the Ady Gil more aggressive of the two boats. The vigilante actions of the Ady Gil (and whoever it is that is supporting them) is wrong, wreckless and, again in my opinion, self defeating. Would I ever listen to the crap spouted by those idiots? Nope.

[Salazaar]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_Wars

Spot the edit



On an unrelated note, what it is up with the design of that thing. Looks like something Batman would use...

Designed by Craig Loomes to got oh so fast...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrace

[Kata]

Having watched all the videos, and also having passed exams on marine navigation laws (albeit a few years ago!), it seems to me that the full responsibility rests with the Ady Gil. They were the overtaking vessel, which gives them an obligation to keep clear, and this obligation does not end when they have completed the overtake until they are well clear; which, obviously, they were not!

It's a shame that these idiots weren't put out of action more permanently. I used to be strongly against the Japanese whaling, but these 'Sea Shepherd' pirates have turned my feelings completely around.

[JPreston]

WTF is up with the water cannons the 'security' ship is blasting the batmobile and its crew with for the duration of the videos, including after the collision and with the smaller ship obviously in distress, does maritime law have anything to say about that? Presumably the purpose of doing so is to intentionally deny the protestors the capability to manouevre their ship safely, if not to knock its crew overboard.

The actions of these protestors have no effect on the ethical status of commercial whaling. There is no method to humanely kill such a large maritime mammal (even if we assume that the population is sustainable) and that is the only relevant consideration.