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Originally Posted by WhoIsDaffy
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. |
You say "real" engine thrust, so even you can tell that there was at least some evidence that the boat was moving forward.
You can see the prop wash behind the Ady Gil, indicating that the boat was moving forward under power, not reversing as the skipper stated. Based on his poor actions and false statements, if this skipper has a captain's license, I hope he loses it.
Even if what the Sea Shepherd group is saying was true, you have to realize that the turning circle of a ship cruising at speed can be more than one kilometer. Had the Ady Gil not been playing chicken with the ship in the first place (which is utterly stupid), then it wouldn't have been sunk.
I think commercial whaling is stupid as well, but it is not tacitly illegal. Until the laws are changed to be more specific, the Japanese "research" whaling program is legal.