Stu wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:28:11 -0600, "Pete C." > wrote:
>
>> Mark Thorson wrote:
>>> Japanese whaling ship hits Sea Shepard speedboat,
>>> causing major damage.
>>>
>>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...rticle-1237983
>>>
>>> Predictably, Sea Shepard is claiming they were delibrately rammed.
>>> But this boat of theirs was capable of 50 knots. It's way
>>> faster than a ship. It's so fast that they can put themselves
>>> in a position for a collision, take a still picture, and a ship
>>> has too much momentum to prevent it. The Japanese say the
>>> video exonerates them of delibrately ramming the speedboat.
>> Too bad none of the criminals in the offending speadboat were killed.
>
> The video shot from the whaler clearly shows the speedboat revved up it's
> engines and move into the path of the whaler causing the collision
> intentionally. They did not attempt to back up to avoid the collision as their
> propaganda officer states but is clearly refuted by the video.


Take a look at the other video taken by the whale whackos. The whaler
certainly looks like it turned toward them, and from the way it turned
back to port after the collision it could obviously manouvre quite
easily. I think the whaler hit them on purpose.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbuq0YEIPNU


I think these guys are hell bent on killing themselves or each other.
While trying to find this video again I cam across another one of them
ramming a whaler with a larger ship, the Farley Mowat.