[Nyororin]

I am sorry I don`t have a link to the Japanese video - I have seen it about 50 times on television news though.

I personally disagree with whaling, but I don`t particularly feel that people need to DIE over this - a sentiment that clearly differs from that of Sea Shepard. They have stated MANY times that they think the whalers should die, their ships should sink, etc etc. There is a REASON there was a defense ship out there to begin with - Sea Shepard is little above a pirating operation. There are lots of things that I disagree with in this world, but attacking people who go against that is no way to actually forward those beliefs.

I also am familiar with ships. My husband`s family has a whole fleet. If the ships are moving, it IS the responsibility of the smaller ship to move out of the way. If the smaller ship is CAPABLE of moving out of the way, it is still responsible as depending on the conditions it can be much harder for the larger ship to see the smaller with enough time left to change course not to hit it.

It is being said in here that it could not see the approaching ship due to the water cannons. If it was close enough to be hit by the cannons, THAT alone is a huge issue. They don`t reach that far. They`re basically a final resort to keep a ship away - not something you shoot from far away to incapacitate another ship. It`s basically an anti-boarding device to stop people from hopping over to the other ship. You`d think if they were close enough to be hit by the cannon they`d have NOTICED the other ship bearing down on them.

If Sea Shepard had been a perfectly peaceful group up until this point, maybe I would be willing to question my own judgement looking at the video - but nope. Just because they want to say "We were rammed! It`s all those crazy whalers` fault!!", I`m not going to doubt the opinion of family who have been fishing for 30+ years. The smaller ship basically put itself into the path of a larger ship that didn`t have the time or space to get out of the way. Whether that was deliberate or just pure stupidity / inexperience... That is the part that I would like to know the answer to.