Ady Gil sinks after whaling skirmish

Australian Broadcasting Corporation ^ | January 8, 2010

[GonzoGOP]

How far from the coast of Australia were they?

Way out, Australia claims the whole darn sea. Hey I never said it was a good claim, just that it made things complex.

[TigersEye]

By Maritime law how can the eco-dinks be considered anything other than pirates? They should expect to be sent to the bottom of the sea.

[GonzoGOP]

She is a speed boat like the Ady Gil, but an old whaler herself.

TYPO Should read She is not a speed boat like the Ady Gil, but an old whaler herself.

[ColdWater]

BTW, it's Masters (degree) IN Business Administration. If you're going to try and scold folks, at least get your terminology correct, PUTZ!

Here is one site that shows several schools offering MBAs in Finance. If you're going to try and scold folks, at least get your facts straight!

http://www.mbaprograms.org/finance/

[Cold Heat]

Cows aren't endangered species.

Nor are the whales they were taking.

[Don W]

EVASIVE species make the most challenging prey, but INVASIVE species should all be hunted to extinction in the areas they are NOT native to.

Few things bother me more than folks using the WRONG word! For example, "decimate" means REDUCE by one tenth (think LATIN, FCOL!), yet ignorant people including some FReepers think it's a synonym for DESTROY.

Yearrgh! Rant over, for now...

[Cold Heat]

In other words, he's a squint eyed accountant....lol

[Trteamer]

What you fail to understand, is that the whale population is healthy and the harvest does not hurt the population by taking a little surplus from a sustainable population. Please study up on the concept of carrying capacity and get back to me.....

[rockrr]

I was waiting for someone to say it tasted like chicken...

[GonzoGOP]

I was waiting for someone to say it tasted like chicken

Nope it turns out the Chicken tastes like Whale. Who would have figured.

[Electric Graffiti]

Don’t mistake me here. I think the eco-terrorists probably got what they deserved, but I DO think the Japanese rammed them intentionally. Anyone able to interpret the Japanese speaker on the first video?

It's clear from both videos that the Japanese intentionally rammed the eco-fecal-freak-terrorists. Can't say I blame them.

Maybe AmericanInTokyo knows what they said or can ping other Freepers who speak Japanese.

Here's the video

[Waco]

Next time send the algorejr., we’ll hopefully be able to stop paying his pension.

[metalurgist]

That gun needs a good telescopic sight.

[crazydad]

I hate to agree with you but I concur... Whaling is sick. We have so much technology now adays they can use for the whale materiel they take...

[ColdWater]

Note that in the Japanese video the angle of the guard rail in the foreground relative to the Ady Gill gets smaller as the ships approach (seconds 00-06. If she was going straight or turning to port that angle should be getting larger. This is before the wake appears On the Ady Gil at second 14.

The hit was only four feet from the bow. If the Ady Gill had NOT accelerated, there would have been no collision.

[ransomnote]

Another freeper on another thread made the point that the Japanese ship appeared first to turn away from the oncoming bat-boat and then realized the bat-boat was committed to crossing her bow and that her present course would effectively chase and catch (collide with) the bat-boat (which was most likely dragging a prop fouling line). So the Japanese ship then turn back in the direction of the bat-boat to get ‘behind’ the speedboat as it crossed.
In other words - to avoid colliding with a person crossing a hallway in front of you, you may choose to turn toward their point of origin so that they pass in front of you instead of turning in the direction they are already moving which is more likely to result in collision.
I watched a vid and it seemed to me that the claim the bat-boat staff made initially, that it was innocently drifting and suddenly rammed, is a bald faced lie intended to provide cover when they KNEW they were in the wrong. If the Japanese ship did turn toward the bat-boat in pure aggression, I can kind of see why it did because those who operate the bat-boat had publicly bragged of their intention to ram and sink other whaling vessels as their entire purpose and pursuit/interception of the Japanese boat was pure aggression in sub zero waters.

[GonzoGOP]

By Maritime law how can the eco-dinks be considered anything other than pirates?

Sure how about terrorist. A pirate trys to rip you off or hold you for ransom. Sure he's a crook, but at least he's a capitalist. These guys are full bore commies.

[ColdWater]

It's clear from both videos that the Japanese intentionally rammed the eco-fecal-freak-terrorists. Can't say I blame them.

It's clear that the Japanese only hit the very front of the smaller boat. If the smaller boat had NOT intentionally accelerated into the path of the whaler, it would NOT have been hit.

[GrandmaPatriot]

The Ady Gil was a whole lot more maneuverable than the Japanese ship. From the looks of it, the Ady Gil was crossing under the bow of the Japanese ship not the other way around.

[behzinlea]

Sunk, huh? That’s a shame.