Can those guys find someone to write their own copy?
They took the feed off UPI and passed along the propaganda that went along with it like a venereal disease.
A Japanese whaling vessel rammed and sank a boat belonging to the environmental group Sea Shepherd, the group’s founder said Wednesday.
Paul Watson, who was on the group’s main vessel, the Steve Irwin, about 500 miles away, said the confrontation took place in Australian waters, The Times of London reported. He said the six men in the crew of the Ady Gil were rescued.
“This seriously escalates the whole situation,” Watson said.
Yes, his group’s actions, namely attempting to entangle the propellers of the Japanese ships by firing cables at them, has seriously escalated the situation.
And then to top it off, when the cables missed, they goosed the throttle trimaran around the large whaling ships to force them to either turn away or stop.
Except that, as our man Rivrdog will attest, boats on the open ocean don’t turn or stop all that well.
The Sea Shepherd folks know this and are foolishly willing to risk their lives for propaganda like this. They paint the boats in radar reflecting black paint and then do their pirate-like activities. They are, in fact, pirates. They attempt and sometimes even succeed in stopping legitimate commerce and shipping and if the Australian government doesn’t have them all arrested for piracy within their territorial waters they do the world a disservice.
I was watching a bit of, gag, the Rachel Maddow Show last night and she was running this story with the “Tear-Jerk-O-Vision” set on high. She then had Bob Barker on (yes, that Bob Barker) to talk about the millions of dollars he’s given the group and how mean the Japanese whalers are. Sea Shepherd has used Barker’s money and bought themselves a new boat, which bears his name.
They even paint the Jolly Roger on the side of their boats.
Too bad the Japanese don’t have an unintentional discharge of one of the explosive harpoons in the direction of the “Bob Barker”. Lets hope for about 2 feet below the waterline when the discharge happens…
The price is WRONG bitch!!
I have watched that stupid show (not by my own doing) and did enjoy listening to the constant whining of the whale bitches… ugh… Can’t we just shoot pirates?
Oh, and just go suck one Barker…. Fall off the face of the planet why dontcha?
From the footage released by the Japanese fishing company which owns the whaler, the whackos from Sea Shepherd were completely at fault. First they ran a parallel course with the whaler for a while, then sped up and crossed the bow of the whaler, which, by reference to the wave direction (a good indicator of course if no other is available), HAD NOT CHANGED COURSE.
The smaller, more maneuverable tri-hull powerboat had the duty to avoid collision, a greater duty than the whaler’s skipper.
Now, this will probably come to a naval review board somewhere in the ANZAC. When it does, and the master of the Sea Shepherd skiff lies his ass off in the face of controverting evidence, I hope those folks ban him from piloting a vessel at sea forever.
My take on just exactly how the collision happened is that the Sea Shepherd skipper tried to intimidate the whaler’s skipper with his angle-on zoom, then pulled off power at the very last moment. A combination of his craft’s momentum and surfing down the front of a large wave then put him under the whaler’s bow.
Sic Semper Tyrannis.
Dumbasses. Lying dumbasses at that.
Either they were so certain the captain of the whaler could somehow change course or stop in time, or so overconfident in their own seamanship that they thought they could pull this crap off.
But, like you say, a large ship, in rough water, doesn’t exactly handle like a speedbike.