Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Whale Wars: Video In The Teeth Of The Tiger

Anyone who maintains Sea Shepherd's Ady Gil deliberately put itself under the bows of the Japanese whalers' security vessel Shonan Maru 2 in its Southern Oceans collision needs to see this video clip taken from the Ady Gil itself. SMII, split-seconds before collision...
It shows its last 2 minutes 24sec. - the AG crew relaxing aboard after winding down their mission, waving goodbye to colleagues on the nearby Bob Barker and preparing to head home for refueling. It is clear the vessel is idling, basically stopped, and it's just as clear that (at approx.1'20") SM2 deliberately swings towards them and bears directly onto them at speed.
Now try to convince me that the Japanese skipper was not to blame...

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