just looked at the ABC video.
the Japanese ship is entirely to blame and was clearly ramming the small boat.
please do look at this video again and observe the following.
1. the angle of the gil in relation to the whalling ship at the start of the video
(its about 45 deg)
2. the angle of the gil in relation to the whalling ship upon impact
(almost 90 deg)
you can see from the waters behind the boat that
a. the gill is
NOT TURNING
b. the engines are on very low (ticking over)
the whalling boat sprays the crew so they cannot see, as a precaution they town down engines and maintain course and heading.
as there is a difference in relative angle between the start and impact, and as the gill is clearly not turning or using any real engine thrust.
the only explination that remains is that the "security" ship must have been turning.
but thier plan has backfired,
because now we are talking about it again
Japan security ship = fail
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having viewed the youtube video its even more obvious.
when boat move though the ocean they create bow waves. (waves that splash forward from the front of the ship - the bow)
the andy gill is not making any bow waves,
the whaller is,
also you can see that the whaller at one point clearly leans accors to its left hand side, with bow waves matching indicating that its not just turning right, but turning hard right.