The latest development in eco-terrorist group Sea Shepherd’s campaign of piracy against Japan’s “scientific” whaling vessels is their new flagship vessel “sinking” after a spectacular collision with a whaling vessel.
Sea Shepherd’s latest acquisition was the Ady Gil, a former “eco-boat,” which with much fanfare they repurposed, its new mission being to sabotage Japan’s dubiously justified whaling operations.
However, a collision with the very ship they were targeting resulted in the ship’s bow being sheared off:
All 6 crew escaped without injury, with their stricken ship having to be abandoned – Sea Shepherd claim it is sinking.
The Japanese ship and crew were apparently unharmed.
Sea Shepherd claim their vessel was rammed in a deliberate effort by the whaling vessel to sink her (a claim which prompted Japan to release the above video), 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.
They also criticise the whalers for not coming to their aid, although another anti-whaling vessel is said to have accompanied them.
Their ship was apparently attempting to foul the propellers of the whaling ship using a rope, a technique of marine sabotage which generally requires a return to port to fix, at much reduced speeds:
They were also photographed shining a laser at the whaling ship, and readying a “projectile launcher”:
Although environmentalist groups and the international mass media generally fawn over their antics, which have included ramming, boarding and sabotaging ships in international waters, they are, unsurprisingly, generally regarded as little more than sanctimonious pirates by many Japanese, with 2ch gleefully rejoicing at their latest misfortune:
“Their ship looks so stupid I couldn’t help but laugh.”
“Serves those pirates right.”
“People are still going to blame Japan for this.”
“Quite an expensive gag they pulled there.”
“Wasn’t this the high speed ship they were bragging about?”
“It looks like a rejected idea from Batman.”
“The other side is saying the Japanese ship rammed them – a little hard to believe.”
“A taste of divine retribution for those Australian racists.”
“Marine terrorists ought to be arrested and punished.”
“They probably planned this from the start, with a ship to pick them up if they got into trouble.”
“If you look carefully, they’ve got a skull and crossbones on their ship. Pirates.”
“Japan’ll probably apologise anyway.”
“Just a performance to elicit more donations from their sponsors.”
“Isn’t the objective of these idiots just to play at sailors whilst raking in more money?”
the people in these comments probably know nothing about the people in Sea Shepard or the operations that the Japanese whalers are committing. If its for research they wouldn’t need to kill hundreds of whales of an endangered species they would do with a few and leave it at that, but they have entire fleets of ships doing this. But i also dont condone alot of the things that Sea Shepard does trying to stop them. There are better ways to do what they are doing. Either way, both of them are are fault and being liars. of coarse i’m only talking about the companies and the people covering for the the whalers.
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?
you see the guys get blown off that thing as the high pressure water slammed into them? AWESOME!
this proves that japanese whalers will not stop for anything and does not give a f♥♥k about you Sea Shepherd
GO GO JAPANESE Whaleing ship!! sink all his boats like pearl harbor >:)
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.
Why give a f♥♥k about people ?
There are too many anyway…