Rumble in the Antarctic: Japanese whalers ram the Ady Gil
A Japanese whaling ship ripped off the front of the Ady Gil, a futuristic speed boat operated by anti-whaling activists from the Sea Shepherd and the whole thing was caught on video.
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It seems to me history repeats itself here in many ways. First of all, Americans and Japanese have two things in common; they really hate it when anyone tries to put a stop to killing off species like the big mammals, and they REALLY hate it when anyone steps on their ambitions to make profit at any cost. Maybe they share the American dream? And, feel free to ridicule my grammar, English is not my first language.
" The absurd part is the captain did not reverse power until it was already to late. If he gunned it he could have backed out in time. What was he doing?"
if you had watched the show you would have known: they were out of fuel and were on deck to wave bye to the bob barker and wait for the steve irwin to refuel them. they could not have done anything.
The Ady Gil was a powerboat: A high speed vessel. it was capable of 40knots (75kmph). That is VERY fast for people who don't speak boat. It was built of light-weight composites and kevlar, this gives it a very high power to weight ratio. The absurd part is the captain did not reverse power until it was already to late. If he gunned it he could have backed out in time. What was he doing?
There is some speculation that they were trying to block them or intentionally get rammed to garner.... More
this watercraft in the seen was deployed from another bigger boat nearby and they were playing chicken with the boat that rammed them and the reason why it was caught on video is because its a tv show
I remember an episode of Whale Wars where that white haired bloated moron said if he could send one of the whalers to the bottom he would. Nice try fatass, maybe you freaks should have used a bigger boat. Not a bad attempt for the Darwin Award though, better luck next time you publicity whores. Maybe they could have planted bullets in their life jackets and said the whalers shot at them, nah, already did that.
This is absolutely hilarious. I hope they build another so the Japanese, or any of the other nations engaged in whaling (Norway, Denmark, Russia, Canada, Granada, Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Iceland, Indonesia) can sink it.
What happened here is obvious. The crew of the Ady Gil was wrong. They put themselves in harms way and then cry foul when they get hit. People aren't stupid and we see this for the publicity stunt that it really is. It makes people that love whales look like fanatical terrorist. Good job at taking the cause a few steps back.
Use of the "R" word is intended to belittle and denigrate poor-born southern whites. It is also used to imply the target is uneducated. Use of the "R" word is as racist and insulting as the use of the "N" word. About what you would expect from one who supports deliberately steering in front of a fishing boat. And, yes, I know that whales are mammals as are cows, sheep, pigs and whatever goes into hot dogs.
Not very smart Ady Gil. USD1.5 million thrown away if your boat sinks. How many endangered animals could I save for USD1.5 million? A damned lot more than you idiots did today!
Nice PR stunt by the batman-like vessel there that obviously WANTED to be rammed. Otherwise: why two cameras focused on the event, why didn't anyone get hurt, why were they running full steam ahead into what was obviously a collision, and why is this suddenly exploding all over the net?
All the Greentards parrot this as if it's some momentous event. Did you donate money to help these people in their quest? Hope you're happy that your investment involves trashing a perfectly good (though.... More
"why two cameras focused on the event,"
One angle was from the Japanese ship, the other from one of the other Sea Shepherd ships. Why is it crazy that they would have cameras?
"why didn't anyone get hurt,"
They got really lucky.
"why were they running full steam ahead into what was obviously a collision, "
Are you watching the same videos that I am? The Japanese ship very clearly veers right into the boat.
"and why is this suddenly exploding all over.... More
It's actually difficult to tell if the Japanese boat veered right. You are making an assumption that the camera is standing still relative to the Japanese boat. Secondly you can also see a wake behind the ady gil as it slowly glides in front of the Japanese boat.
Just remember that judging changes in direction on the ocean requires a static point of reference.
There are obviously trolls lurking about all the posts on this subject. How annoying.
Let's see. The Ady Gil goes 74 mph. The engines were (obviously) on. They didn't move out of the way. They were using photonic disrupters to blind the crew of the security ship. Hmmm. If you're using blinding devices - DON'T STEER YOUR SHIP IN FRONT OF THE OTHER! Also - right of way goes to the larger vessel because it's harder to move out of the way. If the folks weren't stubborn they wouldn't have been hit.
They need to rethink their ideas about how to stop an all metal whaling ship.
This would be a better option
http://www.maritimesales.com/PI12.htm
"Commies", "Eco-terrorists"...the sort of comments I'm reading here show just how puny and sad the intellect of so many bloggers is. This has nothing to do with Communism or terrorism, guys...please go back to school (assuming you have been before) and grow up. It is about protecting intelligent and endangered life in the oceans. Clearly there is a scarcity of it on the net.
You're title contradicts your argument. Therefore, you are a hypocrite.
More to your point, you have an opinion and so do others. Also - terrorism isn't too far away from what these people are doing. I'm sure they "try" not to hurt the crew or themselves, but I'm also sure that emotions run high for these hippies (see - i can overgeneralize too!).
Using calculated and premeditative violence to attain a political or social goal is terrorism. Violence doesn't ALWAYS hurt.... More
... Definately deserved it. Lol.
History repeats itself?
Can someone please tell me where the Antactic is? From the videos it looks like such a peaceful place to visit, but cannot find it on any map. :-(
Btw... these eco-terrorists got exactly what they deserved.
It's quite easy to find. Get a map of the world. That's the whole world... not just the USA. Turn it upside-down, and it's at the top of the page! It'll probably be white too, just to make it more obvious.
Are you serious? "Antactic"? You can't spell or find the Antarctic but you can operate a keyboard? Wow, score one for the retarded. You did get one thing right, those commie ***-whipes got what they deserved.
Ease up there, I think he was poking fun at me for misspelling Antarctic.
a name comes to my head when i see this video: Commander Asaiki Tamai and the first Kamikaze unit of Japan on WWII.
Now lets see if Japanese glorificate their whale hunting vesels as they did with their kamikaze pilots.
Thats awesome! They deserve it
