Japanese whale poaching vessel, Nisshin Maru, rams Sea Shepherd vessels
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Info is a bit hard to come by but it appears they couldn't complete the refuelling and have called the hunt off at least temporally,the fuel ship and factory ship also appear to have collided with possible fuel spill.Refuelling is also apparently illegal at that latitude.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Long time since I read any maritime law, but I'm not surprised the Japanese ship cheesed it. IIRC they'd be subject to Australian maritime law, and liable to have their ship seized (or, as the Canucks sometimes do, scuttled) for deliberately causing damage to other vessels.
The crew of the Nisshin Maru must have known that Greenpeace ships always come equipped with cameras to record what goes on. Did they really think this would be a private matter just because it was out in the remote seas of the Antarctic? However those Greenpeace people take some massive risks and must be as hard as nails.
teqniq
DisMembered
Apologies for slight pedantry but it's Sea Shepherd not Greenpeace. From their site that I linked to earlier:
Thanks for that info. I had thought that Sea Shephard was part of GreenPeace. Sorry to spread confusion.
It might be a bit expensive to buy a boat as big or even near to the size of a whaling factory ship. I think they mainly use the manoeuvrability of their boats to get in among the whalers to disrupt their catching activity. There is not a lot they could do to a factory ship that would help the whales. The Japanese claim that their whaling is purely for scientific research - ho hum. Strange that a bit of pure research requires the ramming of other ships.
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
The shonan maru 2 also rammed the ady gil last year when it was dead in the water out of fuel (iirc). The ady gil sunk, but everyone survived.
The skipper Pete Bethune then boarded the shonan maru 2 during the night to issue the captain with a bill for the ady gil and he was held on the shonan maru 2 and taken back to japan and given a suspended sentence.
Googling it seems that the ady gil owners now have a lawsuit out against sea shepherd saying Pete Bethune was ordered to scuttle the ship and to create sympathy for the TV show.
How you quite organise it so a japanese ships (your sworn enemy) rams your dead in the water boat (it looks pretty dead in the water to me) and risk the lives of 5 or 6 crew who are still on the ady gil to raise sympathy for your cause, I'm not quite sure tbh.
From what I remember from the show Pete Bethune hand built the ady gil, and I imagine is understandably upset he's lost his boat, and trying to claim the money to get a new one from anywhere he can......
But if it was a purposeful ram by the japanese its looking like they're getting a bit of a reputation for it.
The skipper Pete Bethune then boarded the shonan maru 2 during the night to issue the captain with a bill for the ady gil and he was held on the shonan maru 2 and taken back to japan and given a suspended sentence.
Googling it seems that the ady gil owners now have a lawsuit out against sea shepherd saying Pete Bethune was ordered to scuttle the ship and to create sympathy for the TV show.
How you quite organise it so a japanese ships (your sworn enemy) rams your dead in the water boat (it looks pretty dead in the water to me) and risk the lives of 5 or 6 crew who are still on the ady gil to raise sympathy for your cause, I'm not quite sure tbh.
From what I remember from the show Pete Bethune hand built the ady gil, and I imagine is understandably upset he's lost his boat, and trying to claim the money to get a new one from anywhere he can......
But if it was a purposeful ram by the japanese its looking like they're getting a bit of a reputation for it.
I have been on that Ady Gil boat. At the time it was called Earthrace and was moored in Torquay harbour to get publicity for its proposed fastest circumnavigation of the Earth. It was silver colour and with its strange curled trimaran 'wings' looked very futuristic. I didn't know until a few minutes ago that it had subsequently been painted black and renamed for use with the Sea Shepherd project. I always wondered what had happened to it.
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
Im pretty sure it got the record for the fastest circumnavigation of the earth.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Yes, it seems pretty stupid. They're really just giving Sea Shephard the club to beat them with.
Anyone know if "Nisshin" means "stingray."
sunny jim
A pikey fluffy type
Gojira (now brigitte bardot) was tehboat. Id love to go on that.
My god I fucking love boats
Wow! That is one cool looking boat!
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
From the point of view of the Japanese, what should they do?
They don't see an issue with catching whales, and yet they are being actively prevented from doing so by the Sea Shepherd lot.
If someone is trying to go about their business, and you keep deliberately getting in their way, why act all surprised if they turn violent and do everything in their power to make you f*** off?
They are trying to earn their living - it is not a game to them.
Giles..
They don't see an issue with catching whales, and yet they are being actively prevented from doing so by the Sea Shepherd lot.
If someone is trying to go about their business, and you keep deliberately getting in their way, why act all surprised if they turn violent and do everything in their power to make you f*** off?
They are trying to earn their living - it is not a game to them.
Giles..
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
do you apply this to your own tenants anger and possible retribution when you put their rent up or fail to carry out repairs
maomao
普費斯
You just love sticking up for cunts cause you're a cunt.
The "research" bollocks is completely spurious as most of the meat ends up for sale and a large proportion of that ends up unsold because it's known to be high in mercury and hasn't been a fashionable food for a long time.
I don't see what my business has to do with this issue! I am just pointing out that if two groups of people are trying to achieve opposing objectives, neither should be surprised if violence ensues, especially in the absence of any third party authority.
They've come all that way and spent a lot of money to catch some whales. They just see the Sea Shepherd people as a pain in the arse.
Giles..
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
answer the question! is it fair for your tenants to get aggressive with you ripping them off or not carrying out repairs?
so fuck the international conventions off then is it?
who gives a shit about human health and safety when there are a few whales to catch and kill
do you have a line? (apart from your bottom one) if so where is it?
If there is little market for the whale meat, and it isn't for research, why do they continue to do it then?
Giles..
maomao
普費斯
Cause they're bloody minded cunts like yourself.
not-bono-ever
meh
Japanese politics and whale fishing dependant prefectures keep the industry going
there is a shit load of Whale meat in cold storage than no -one wants
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