[faucetman]

The video I saw shows the whaling ship veering to starboard (right), then realizing they would run over the hippies boat, veered to port (left)to try and correct their ill considered tactic. This was attempted MURDER on the part of the whalers. Murder is not an acceptable response to someone throwing a stink bomb at your huge ship.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/01/06/18634456.php

[jazusamo]

These protests have been going on for quite some time and the protesters are terrorists, IMO.

If they want to get out there with whaling ships and do everything they can to cause damage to them the whalers have every right to protect themselves.

[troy McClure]

The Hippes are nothing but pirates, More power to the whalers they should sink the Sea Sheperd.

[GonzoGOP]

This was attempted MURDER on the part of the whalers.

Not if they were attempting to foul you screws. As you pointed out getting disabled in high seas is a death sentence down there. A picture on an earlier thread clearly shows the Andy Gil firing a laser at the Japanese ship.

I have been arguing, and getting hammered for it, that I think the Japanese ship did turn into the Andy Gil. But I also thing they were justified due to the fact that they were under attack. Self defense is killing, but it is not MURDER.

[ArrogantBustard]

This was attempted MURDER on the part of the whalers.

This collision was either attempted suicide on the part of the pirates, or self defense on the part of the whalers.

[jim_trent]

Looks like you are the only one who saw that.

What I saw (in that and other videos) is that the batboat gunned its engines and ran in front of the larger boat. In previous articles, the enviroweenies said they added a ton of kevlar to the front of the boat in order to make it “bulletproof”. Maybe it was bullet proof, but it was not steel hull proof.

[lack-of-trust]

looks to me like the pirates were trying to foul the prop of the whaler. (coils of line and floats on the rear deck of the pirate boat, which was trying to cross the path of the whaler)

Dead in the water in tha antarctic among the icebergs is easily fatal for ship and crew.

[nomad]

These eco-nuts are pirates and should have been fired upon.Maybe the Japanese navy needs to send a cutter or frigate as escort and when these idiots try and intercept a legal enterprise on the high seas,they can be arrested as the pirates they are,and I wish they do resist,then I`d say open fire with their(Japanese`s) main gun and sink the bastards(eco-pirates).

[ColdWater]

The video I saw shows the whaling ship veering to starboard (right), then realizing they would run over the hippies boat, veered to port (left)to try and correct their ill considered tactic. This was attempted MURDER on the part of the whalers. Murder is not an acceptable response to someone throwing a stink bomb at your huge ship.

After you factor in the movement of the Bob Barker which was crossing the bow of the whaler and the sudden acceleration and slight left turn of the eco-boat, you have a different story ...

[ColdWater]

then realizing they would run over the hippies boat, veered to port (left)to try and correct their ill considered tactic.

The hippies boat was almost motionless and would have been missed until it accelerated and the whaler veered to port to try to avoid the hippies ill considered tactic.

[ColdWater]

The video I saw shows the .... hippies boat accelerating from a stop to cause the collision.