Have you seen the video? It clearly shows the little boat throttling up to cut off the whaler about 15 seconds before the collision.
To poorly paraphrase a line out of the movie “Broken Arrow”
sic “I don’t know, it shows a lack of total commitment”.
If they were SERIOUS about saving whales they would have let the Japanese ship run over the cabin of their little boat and they could have written off the crews as martyrs to their cause.
Fire a high powered green laser at me, in an attempt to blind me and I will shoot back with real bullets. The Japanese ship should have turned around and made a second pass over their hull.
What the enviro-wackos are doing is to declare a personal war against Japan. I would not be unhappy in the slightest if this group found a limpet mine attached the hull of their boat and they were sunk to the bottom of the Antarctic sea.
If we (Americans) are against terrorist fundamentalists then we need to not make a distinction to what cause the terrorists fight for or against.