Oh. Dear. The Ady Gil trimaran, used by the Sea Shepherd organisation to hunt down whalers, got itself an unexpected rhinoplasty yesterday, while buzzing around Japanese whaling vessel, the Shonan Maru, in the Antarctic waters of Commonwealth Bay.
One crew member suffered a couple of cracked ribs, but the rest of them were unharmed and taken to the organisation’s support boat, the Steve Irwin. Let’s hope there are no gigamuntic sting rays patrolling the seas at the moment.
Ollie
Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 7:09 AMDriftwood & Carbon Fibre vs thousands of tonnes of steel… bit of a no-brainer.
I seriously don’t know what they expected to happen.
Realism
Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 10:32 AMA little harsh looking at the footage. “It’s coming right for us!” http://bit.ly/8Es184
Robert
Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 11:26 AMThe Sea Sheperd crowd says they were stationary, and the angle of their footage implies stationary, however the footage from onboard the Japanese boat clearly shows the Sea Sheperd vessel under forward motion (you can see the wake and turbulence from the engines in a forward direction just before collision) – going to be a nasty argument! (maybe the guys on the Sea Sheperd boats don’t have access to YouTube yet)
Scunnerous
Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 8:55 PMOh dear indeed. The old guy is lying: I see no sign of an “attack” whatsoever – they took a big chance and lost. A ship of that size cannot be “pointed” so easily. I don’t see what is “illegal” about what the JP ship was doing but the “conservationist” crowd were lobbing missiles, trailing propellor tangling ropes and shooting eye-damaging lasers. Sabotaging shipping and putting crews in danger is uhh, illegal.