Sea Shepherd’s New Ship Smashed in Crash with Whalers

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I actually side with the Shepherds with this, though I think they need to have more smarter ways to counter it instead of only using the media to create a controversy.

Oh well, at least they have a new ship. lol.

As for the whalemeat thing, I hear they are used for the blubber and for certain 'school meal' types of every-day fish meats. Either way, that market is only bound for failure in the near future, with or without the activism.

lol that clearly reminds me that episode from south park

This clearly reminds me that episode from south park

well they are trying to convict whalers by pretending to be hit by them(and possibly killed/hurt in the process)

i hate it when people who have too much passion for justice rub their justice to others because they think its their duty. damn them.

Actually the Swashtika was and still is a symbol of my religion, Buddism. The symbol of peace [peace symbol] was originally a creation of the SS, the nazi secret police. It was created by taking a cross and breaking it in half and turning it upside down. Bet you didn't know that. If you wear a peace symbol, you hate jesus and god. LOL.

Because we need those species. Not only they are necessary to keep the food chain in order and prevent ecological collapse, we'll need them as genetic material for future genetic engineering. Do you know how many things a whale can do that most other animals can't?

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crap boat sinks after being hit once. and it cost what!?

poor freaks who donated and thought they saved the world of something.

i think they just added a few zeros to it so they could grab more money from stupid rich freaks.

Actually the Swashtika was and still is a symbol of my religion, Buddism. The symbol of peace [peace symbol] was originally a creation of the SS, the nazi secret police. It was created by taking a cross and breaking it in half and turning it upside down. Bet you didn't know that. If you wear a peace symbol, you hate jesus and god. LOL.

Nice boat anyways.

That is one nice ship. To bad they used it for this, bet its one fast ride. Next time use a Law rocket to get the point across or just stay home.

There are a handful of Aussies on this site. What did you expect?

the law is been raped by japan, science sure who believes that garbage.

but to me these people are dumb, if your going to care about a goal at least take the time to cause real harm, the way these guy are doing it is so lame and not really much of doing any real good.

But what should be done is change the law so that only 50 wales a year can be caught, lets see what japan BS will say then.

For me who cares kill all the whales its not like its going to matter in 100 years they will be done for one way or another, and that is science.

If these guys where serious they would not do such lame attacks, this type of useless waste of potential, do as Governments train soldier to do, then we talk.

ok it was in australian waters the japanese shouldnt be there the whaling they are doing is illegal and both sides have played dirty the navy should go down there and force the whalers out of there simple and the japanese should conform to international laws even simpler

Hunt skinny Japanese chicks not whales!

seriously, how hilarious would it be if the whaling researchers hired mercenaries to just kill all the sea shepherd retards?

"ok deploy the prop foul" *boom* headshot.

I say its fair game, the pirates ram the Japanese with their ship all the time. they should be able to defend themselves.

At the end of this, one has to ask, what are those idiots thinking?

Two, what would push people to risk their life to stop the whaling?

Have anyone actually seen a whale before? They are magnificent. Takes a long time for one to grow up that big just to have a whaling ship spears it to death. I have never even heard of a whale attacking a ship before in the past... why do we have to eat them? Even a shark gets more respect. Perhaps one day it would be alright for people to kill each other off in the name of culture and tradition and food.

I think all of you are choking on your own freedom. Pirates or not, at least they are doing what is right and just. We must coexist with other species.. Not co-destroy them.

FUK YOU DOLPHIIN AND FUK YOU WHAELL!!!

i like your analogy 09:13. terrorists need to feed themselves to whaler propellers if they want to risk their lives for the whales

Even Equality Now pursue their misguided cause in a peaceful and lawful manner.

What the Japanese whaler is doing is completely legally legitimate. Those vigilantes don't like it, so they are taking things into their own hands by pursuing violent and dangerous acts to justify their cause.

If acts of violence are permissible when you are "doing the right thing", then nobody should persecute terrorists.

It looks more like the whaler turned to hit the ship. If it had kept on its path I don't think they would have collided in that way.

On an interview on CNN the captain of the other anti-whaling ship said the whaling ship had purposely targeted the Ady Gil. I didn't really believe it when I heard it but from this video it kind of does look like that is what happened.

lmao on australian news here they did indeed blame the japs for "ramming" that stupid bat mobile shit.

lol it would be catastrophic if the Normandy is moving FTL then

Its so funny to see those little men hunting a big whale ;).. for food. For A SCIENTIFIC purposes.

I left a comment saying you're a fag

Yeah... but it would be much more hilarious if the whales would hire some hitman's to assassinate the whalers.

I say its fair game, the whalers kill whales. The whales should be able to defend themselves. But the point is they cant. Because the whalers are some bunch of gangbanger pu$$ies. And that's where the Sea-Shepherds come in.

the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization. <- proves they are terrorist!

whales are delicious,that's why

Can someone tell why the hell Japanese are hunting whales ?

Please.

I'd still like to see this "research" they keep needing the whales for. It's bullshit, the whale meat should be going bad before they dispose of it, but you know how the Japanese love their seafood fresh, so I'm guessing they barely do anything before selling it off.

I love you Japan, but you're being dishonest little pricks when it comes to whaling.

Oh, and the Sea Shepard's crew is full of idiots and wusses. If they had the brains and the guts they would be blowing up these ships instead of just impeding them.

the japanese men make hot japanese women for all of us to fap on.. so leave them alone !

Schrobby, a ship the size of that whaler CANNOT dance around and run over a fast boat like the idiots had. Sorry. Can't happen. The physics won't allow for it.

Video proof of a Japanese vessel attempting to murder those on another vessel = Japanese FAIL.
The video from the Bob Barker proves this. It might have felt good to the Japanese at the time, but its gonna make for some really bad PR.
A ton of donations to Sea Shepard.
And much less sympathy to the whalers.
They just made things a lot harder on themselves.

In an event last year. The doofuses swamped their own boat due to terminal idiocy, and didn't have a backup. The Japanese were kind enough to rescue them and were rewarded by attempted and actual sabotage by the people they rescued. Contemptible.

Fools...You should have brought Metal Gear Ray if you want some serious shit...

The only way to stop whaling is to turn every whale into cute, anthromorphic anime lolis...

whales... japan and the eco terrorists should both piss off from the area.

Westerners who are complaining about Japanese whaling are just plain ignorant about the issue and need to get some facts straight and get off their high horses.

Here are a couple of questions for you:

Which country does the most whaling annually?
Answer: Norway. And they do it openly for commercial purposes. Pure profit. Even the US is historically more responsible for high whaling tallies and overhunting than Japan is.

What do you think is more harmful to the ocean ecosystem (and the natural world at large):
-Japan: takes ~400 non-endangered whales annually
-America: dumps millions of tons of sewage, garbage and chemical waste into the ocean every year, is (by far) the single largest contributor to global warming and all associated ecological problems

If you're against whaling that's your right to your own opinion, but let's not forget that adage about "he without sin" shall we?

To this very day, I have laughed every time I see the sea shepherds. I laugh even more when I see them crying. I just think what they're doing to protect these whales is just unnecessary and ridiculous.

tl;dr Sea Shepherds fail.

Whaling is ghastly and disgusting.

Dirty Japs deserve to drown, so I wish it was vice-versa.

its true that whaling shouldn't be allowed under the false pretense that it is but what these guys are doing is ridiculous.

im sure in all reality they crashed their stupid looking boat purposely for all the media attention which they are now getting.

Thats too bad im a fan of highperformance boats and cars and to see that go down because of something stupid seems like such a waste. Im sure if the guy who origionaly built it does build another he wont be giving it to them to destroy lol.

The rest of you should stop masturbating your gigantic ego saying "Save the whales!"
Admit it. None of you fuckers truly give a flippin' damn about no whales. The pirates were hostile, the Japs rammed them. End of story. There isn't even any need to bring in whaling to justify antagonistic behaviour like that. Downvote me for all you like. Fucking hypocrites sitting in their rooms stroking their e-penis and being delusional about caring about life other than their own.

I wish people would stop throwing the word terrorist around like it means anything in relation to these idiots. They are vigilantes at best and not very good ones.

I'll have to agree with the people that the Japanese ship was not at fault for ramming the Sea Shepard's ship. Considering the strongest argument the article provided stated the following query:

"although they are silent as to how their highly maneuverable trimaran managed to end up in the path of the ship in the first place."

Targeting Japan for whaling annoys me somewhat because there are European countries doing the exact same thing.

That being said whaling is barbaric and anyone discussing the economy or anything else is missing the point that highly intelligent creatures are being slaughtered to fulfill the financial desires of selfish, ignorant assholes.

If we can somehow curb this massacre then maybe we can educate people to respect other more domesticated animals.

I love lolis soooo much.

We allow all kinds of non endangered fish to be hunted yet we won't allow these? Just because you see then as too cute to hunt does not mean they have to. Quit thinking that you are the one who can dictate what is right, circumstances are different there so our pet is their prey.

what a fucking joke...

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Stupid eco-freaks got pwned! S

eriously, those morons in the Sea Sheperds should have their nuts cut off for ruining that beautiful boat. For those who don't know, before that boat was bought with environmentalist blood money it was called the Earthrace and it was a piece of history. It was used to set a world speed record for circumnavigating the globe. Now it is lost forever thanks to some spoiled Hollywood Socialites and their idiotic beliefs.

If you watch the video closely, you can clearly see that the crew deliberately attempted to ram the Earthrace into a ship many times its size with predictable results.

its "nice boat". it has a hidden meaning...try google

That makes the US government terrorists as well. They kidnapped guys from all over the world ignoring all laws and jailed them in a military camp... ^_^

The helmsman was temporarily blinded by some nutcase with a laser. I guess he 'zigged' when he should have 'zagged'.

As an expert in the matter....

Whale meat is pretty bland. So I'm against whaling. Waste of effort... They should hunt tastier things like giant squid or crab.

Scientific Research?

"We Have Detilmind armost conclursivery that whale meat is vely, VELY Dericious!!! Moah leasealch es needed howevel..."

Yep, the Jappy-neese appetite for whale penis and whale anus sushi is going to trigger an extinction or two, and along the way the price will go up and the demand will match the enthusiasm for the price. Silly anime I saw "Jungle De Ikyo" had one where a whale was in Tokyo (too complicated to explain here, but funny) and the military shot a bit of flesh off, then fortunately it was rescued, but the people were grabbing the flesh to eat, I guess the inciderary explosives were only a spice...

I am not judgmental or aside from "Lound Eye" non PC jokes, racist. I am truly fascinated by the oriental mind's ability to turn the most rare, scary or gross looking critter into a delicacy. Now, some things, like "Thousand year egg" are by-products of desperation, but others are well I can not call them other than art. They have made an art form out of turning the most rare, hard to get to, disgusting to think of eating, etc. critter into something their affluent spend enough to buy tens of thousands of bowls of rice on like it's nothing. This may seem racist, but it's not, the stuff I'm joking at, the dishes I have tried, I was truly moved by how tasty and artistic the meals were. Back in the late 90s I had a Chinese girlfriend, one of China's new 'middle class' and she was fascinating, both in how Maoist she was but also her enthusiasm to eat every creature on the planet and compare notes, but she did it in a way that made my "Leftist Hippie 2.0" mind take exception. Fairly fat, for a Chinese lady, but I didn't mind. Think a sexy Maoist dominatrix feeding you scary stuff;-) She had me at odds with my Dad in CA, 'cause I wanted to go hunt some shark to get "Shark Fin" after some time with her, and some really sexy whisperings of recipes in my ear:-)

She had an idea (due to current media stuff) that the USA should let "SnakeHead" fish overrun it's waters because it would convert enough "Wasted" biomass into usable meat, including prairie dogs up to a mile from a river. This would make a lot of people yell, but I remember all the times I've fished and got nothing but "Suckers" and then get laughed at when I even suggest eating them. I mean, fish all day, get suckers you need to cut open and bleed so scavenger animals eat them, and then there's more suckers and any "Real" game fish have to be planted, making a need for "Fishing Licenses" to pay for it and "Daily Limits". What if all the fish were usable fish and you could even throw "Food" garbage into the water and it'd turn into more of them?

And, while I do enjoy reading about the works of Eco and Animal Rights "Terrorists", I am resigned to the fact that we'll probably have a catastrophic collapse in the oceans. I'm just enjoying eating seafood while I can, because in a few decades at most almost everything (except jellyfish and algae) will have to be grown in your own fishtank or special "Aquaculture" pool. Do you hear me? If you like shrimp, lobster, Halibut, etc. even Clams... you'll either have to make a swimming pool size "Saltwater Aquarium" and grow them yourself, or pay through the nose to buy them from someone who does. Eating shark will be the work of five years to a decade, and two pools, one partitioned for two sharks bought goldfish sized for hundreds or thousands, the other for fish to raise them on, though you'll also need to feed them meat and anything else they'll try to eat. And when you are done, you'll have to wait to try to mate them because you probably won't even be able to buy the "Minnow size" ones anymore either. Oh, and by that time the government and the UN will probably be trying to sieze them in sheer desperation to get the oceans back under control.

It's putting a perspective on things. I do want to "SeaStead", that is get some decommissioned ships and make a few large floating concrete platforms and have a tribe/micro-nation out in the middle of the ocean. But with the collapse, we'll get a largely green ocean that's full of jellyfish and probably about every other "Niche" creature will grow to hideous proportions, like the Giant Squid with all their predators (sperm whale, shark) made extinct. If that happens, well I'd actually still rather be there, than in the 'developed' countries because they'll be in martial law and in civil war. But instead of the beautiful salty seas, we'd be on top of a sargasso swamp with Lovecraftian horrors just beneath the waves, kind of like a cool James Cameron movie.

It's good in a lot of ways, most notably that AmeriKKKa will be more into suppressing internal revolt than bothering new independent nations. Also that our work on "Aquaculture", vacuuming the jellyfish and algae from the oceans, restoring marine habitats, etc. will win us Nobel Prizes and give us lots of pull with the oceanic nations... I could make a whole career out of helping an island nation restore and protect it's now drift netted to extinction marine ecosystem, and I'd have tons of fun making "Tethered floating concrete barriers" to rip apart drift nets, and perhaps remote "Limpet Mine distributors" to deal with armed groups trying to force the issue.

But, almost as I want to set up such an operation for the personal freedom and for the Slave girls, I want to swim in the ocean itself on a frequent basis. I love the ocean, especially the Pacific, every time I've visited it I just jump in and relax, looking like a nut no doubt to friends with me, of course this was along the beach in the USA. I mean have a large hexagonal floating mesh to keep the sharks out, maybe double it as an "Aquaculture" cage and just swim in the open ocean. Lay back and float wearing nothing but my tribal chief mask and my Muppets "Animal" t-shirt. However, the ocean will probably have critical mass in Jellyfish, plenty of ones 1mm small that could kill or drown me. That's a direct result of the imbalance in the oceans, all the fish eat these, but now there are so few fish they grow to Lovecraftian size and then eat the fish first. While the aquaculture tank would be the safest place, it'd still turn what previously had almost never been a danger into attempted suicide for a long time:-(

Eco-terrorists think they get to police international waters... Very retarded. But then again Japanese fishermen think they have claim to whales and dolphins... which are migratory and belong to the international waters.

Stay in your own goddamn waters Japanese fishermen and you won't get suicidal retards like these trying to sink you...

And as for the dumbasses who commented "terrorists should stop bothering the hardworking Japanese fishermen": They are hardworking indeed, if no one bothered them half the world's marine life would go fucking extinct!

You can see the 'ship of such massive proportions' is accelerating towards a pretty stationary target. Those kinds of ships have pretty fucking powerful engines and you can see that quite clearly in how it breaks the waves en-route and the deceleration right before the hit.

I thought they were lying about the boat not being in motion but watching the video the boat really wasn't moving at all. lol

Yes the Joker was driving the whaling boat, but it's ok Batmans jumped into the sea and escaped!

What an asshole way to waste such a good ship.

Piracy means that they are trying to steal stuff from the Whalers doesn't it? they are hardly trying to be thieves just trying to stop the illegal killing of endangered species...

They are using the infamous Jolly Roger Flag. By international laws, anyone could sink a ship with such flag.

Practically a "shoot on sight" design.

F*CK U WHALE N DOLPHIN!!!

I love that South Park episode

Here is a partial list of acts performed by the Sea Shepherds:

# 1979: A Sea Shepherd vessel rams the whaler “Sierra”.

# 1980: The “Sierra” is sunk in Lisbon harbour with the help of limpet mines. Sea Shepherd claims responsibility.

# 1981: Sea Shepherd sinks the two whaling vessels, Ibsa I and Ibsa II, in the Spanish harbour of Viga (Sole source Sea Shepherd. This has not been confirmed by any other source)

# 1986: Sea Shepherd activists shoot at Faroese police with a line rifle and try to sink their rubber dinghies.

I'm no fan of Japanese whaling, but these Sea Shepherd dudes definitely live up to their reputation as pirates. If you'd like to read more about their antics, go here:

http://www.highnorth.no/library/movements/Sea_Shepherd/se-sh-re.htm

Seriously the Pirates were driving this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrace
No way in hell they could be hit on purpose if they did not want to or the guy at the helm was an idiot.

Mistakes were probably made on both sides. Pirates got to close trying to do their thing hindering the whaling operations and the Japanese probably had difficutly seeing such a small vessle so close to them and messed up defensive manuvering.

If anything after looking at the Pirates boats specs I would have to go with them getting themselves rammed on purpose to generate attention. Captain and leader of the Pirates faked being shot before.

It is obvious the Joker was driving, he needed to take out the Batboat :)

Watching the orientation of the whaling vessel, it definitely seems to be turning towards the Ady Gil. An attempt at ramming *does* seem likely.

However it doesn't look like the Ady Gil would have been struck if they had stayed inert. As the whaler gets closer the Ady throttles its engines and starts moving forward, right into the path of the larger ship.

when they can use their money to help starving, sick children instead they take the money to play sea pirate and endanger the lives and live-hood of human beings.

They deserve much worse than losing their boats, they should be put in jail.

this proves that japanese whalers will not stop for anything and does not give a fuck about you Sea Shepherd

GO GO JAPANESE Whaleing ship!! sink all his boats like pearl harbor >:)

Acts of terrorism vs extinction of a species,which is more important to us humans?

Talking about terrosist acts,we're talking about threatening the importance of a country or its connections to the rest of the world,which for these big boys on toys are a serious offence whether it is legalize or not since acts for the selfish gains for an individual or a group of insignificant numbers does not justify equality for others,even if it is for a cause.

However the acts to preserve a species that is in danger of extinction is not much of a selfish act if it justifies the means of provoking serious thought towards not just the survival of a species but also the peservation of an ecosystem that is in danger of being disrupted from the equlibrium of a balanced system.In time this could turn out for the worse for many more species unless our own actions are not kept in check.

In my opinion,there are no right sides to a two sided argument,rather it is the right act that should be taken on both sides that is important if a problem is to be settled peacefully.

you see the guys get blown off that thing as the high pressure water slammed into them? AWESOME!

Man, I can agree with what Sea Shepard stands for, but not how they go about doing it. They just come off like assholes and that doesn't help any cause at all. Really though, did they need that kind of boat to help sea life in the first place?

I find it comical how they expect help from the people they are trying to hurt. That's like attempting to rob someone's house then suing them for shooting you when you enter their house with intent to harm them.

Would anyone in their right mind help a person after they blind you with lasers, annoy you with speakers, gas you with stink bombs, attempt to disable your boat in the open ocean far away from a harbor? I'm surprised at the patience of the whalers to not arm themselves.

I don't agree/disagree with the concept of harvesting the seas for whales but the idiots got what they deserved. If it was me I would have snipped off each and everyone on that boat with something more then a water cannon.

There's an inaccuracy in this article.

"All 6 crew escaped without injury"

Actually, one of the SS crew on the Ady Gil suffered broken ribs.

Also, just to clarify, the Ady Gil was pretty much donated. They didn't spend a cent on it. There are a lot of mistaken comments on this article.

Finally, anyone who honestly believes that the Japanese are whaling for scientific research should go out and find a reasonably-sized patch of sand and promptly shove their head into it.

holy shit, since when has Sankaku had this many whale-loving lurkers?!

why is it anyone who defends the Eco-Terrorists doesn't mention the fact that it was the trimaran who rammed them? It's obvious from the footage that even if the whaling ship was cruising and shooting its water cannons, if the trimaran had not throttled it's engines this would have not happened.

Sure, cry for the whales all you want. I couldn't care less since we all have to eke a living somehow. As for the Ady Gil crewman who had his ribs broken: blame the captain of the Ady Gil for being a fucktard.

I love how the water cannon guy still shoots them in the face after they've just got rammed. lol

>EyE
this is shit

The article pick side which makes it sad.

I haven't read much about this but from what i heard it's near the antarctic regions

What the Hell is Japanese whalers doing there???

Do Japanese water stretch that far down?

if not then they have no right to be there for anything but science and catching whales for money is not science.

Fail. They left the lighter vessel to free-drift? What, did they think it had shields, or ships in open waters can stop instantly?

If they were going to sabotage the whaling boat, why were all the crew at the far end? Teleporting rope?

What a waste of a perfecly well-designed boat.

It's funny how nobody has mentioned that the boat was drifting a good few minutes before this happened, In the forward camera shot of the incident the Japanese vessel clearly turns to and then turns away after striking the boat.....

I have eyes, I have a brain.... Don't dare say I'm imagining things, the Japanese knew exactly what they were doing by destroying this boat due to the fact that having it around hurts them in there hunt for killing Whiles..

Hallelujah!

Japanese illegally killing whales in Australian Artctic Waters.......Yehhhhhhhhhh... for *Scientific* reasons too *cough* like, does this While taste good with this Brand of Sake, or this one? ohh, we ran out of Whale Meat, better go back and kill me some more whales...