Comments on: Whale Wars: Japanese Whalers Slice Sea Shepherd Boat in Half (Video)

By: Mimim

Mimim — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:09:00 +0000

You can clealy see the whalers boat turn towards the smaller boat just before it struck it.

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By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:42:34 +0000

Interestingly, the video shows the Adi Gale dead in the water, with the Shonan Muru heading on a course that would easily clear the smaller vessel.

The reason for the collision was not ignorance of the physics, but the rapid course change by the Shonan towards the smaller boat – which again is DIW at the time.

I spent 13 years at sea as a US Navy surface warfare officer, and any court that does not find the Shonan’s captain guilty of reckless endangerment is clearly being paid off by the whaling industry.

Previous harassment by the Sea Sheppard vessel nothwithstanding, the Shonan appears to have intentionally destroyed a vessel with 6 crew members in the Antarctic. This was a malicious and irresponsible act on the part of the Japanese, that could have easily resulted in the death of that crew.

By: likwidshoe

likwidshoe — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:03:51 +0000

Anti-whalers aren’t looking too bright here. Someone should send them to a remedial physics course where that they can learn what happens when superior mass and speed collides into something of smaller mass and slower speed.

By: Cardinal

Cardinal — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:33:02 +0000

Whalers should be shot on sight.

By: Japanese Whalers Sink Sea Shepherd’s $2 Million New Boat [Photos] : Planetsave

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:08:46 +0000

[...] “It cut eight feet off the front of the vessel,” said Capt. Paul Watson, who was aboard the group’s flagship Steve Irwin, several hundred kilometers away at the time of the collision. “There is a big gaping hole, so it can’t go anywhere or it would fill up with water,” added Watson. [Watch video of collision.] [...]