BREAKING:
Crew of Ady Gil were ARMED, and were assaulting the ship.
They were apparantly using bow-guns with pointed arrows. These have been recovered by the Japanese ship and photographed. That to me seems to be some kind of violation of international maritime law, and could even be classified as terrorism.
Link to several pages with this information developing about the ecofreaks in this incident:
http://mainichi.jp/select/jiken/graph/20100106/15.html
http://mainichi.jp/select/jiken/graph/20100106/14.html
I'm surprised this is only coming out now. I would think that would have been the first thing the Japanese reported.
Skeptic talking
(1)Tips of those arrows look awfully pristine, not like they had slammed into ships hull. My arrows get scratched up hitting a wood and foam target. You would think that baning off a ships hull would have chipped the tip of at least one of the four arrows shown.
(2)The water in the picture http://mainichi.jp/select/jiken/graph/20100106/14 is blue and nearly dead calm. You can even see reflections of sky in the sea it is so calm. Compare that to the water in the videos of the collision. Green with high seas and white caps. In the Japanese video the crew are getting hammered with spray all the way up on the deck.
(3)How did they find that arrow floating when the ship was under way. There is no wake visible in the picture and if they had taken the time to slow down the arrow would have been left far behind the ship.
Just because the Sea Hippies are turbo jerks lets not get caught in propaganda. I'm not saying that it didn't happened, but those pictures smell worse than the dead whales.