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2010-01-08 Down Under

Anti-whalers vow 'no surrender' as superboat sinks

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Posted by Steve White 2010-01-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 I think the Burkina Faso Coast Guard has higher seamanship standards than these guys.

Posted by Pstanley 2010-01-08 02:09|| 2010-01-08 02:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Whatever happened to, "The Captain goes down with his ship"?

Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-01-08 07:35|| 2010-01-08 07:35|| Front Page Top

#3 No insurance company in the world is stupid enough to pay off on this claim. And even if they were insured, that insurance company is going to have some pointed words to say to Lloyd's Registry.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-01-08 09:08|| 2010-01-08 09:08|| Front Page Top

#4 backed by Hollywood A-listers including Sean Penn, Martin Sheen and Pierce Brosnan.

Members all of the Film Actors Guild.

Posted by SteveS 2010-01-08 10:40|| 2010-01-08 10:40|| Front Page Top

#5 "Australia is also investigating claims that the whalers chartered flights to spy on the Sea Shepherd ships and harass them using the Shonan Maru 2 security vessel. "

WTF? It is Hollywood's criminal mercenaries who are breaking the law, not the Japanese whalers.

This is not for the whales, it is just another way the depraved gods of commercial pop-culture have of demonstrating that they have a different set of rules.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2010-01-08 11:03|| 2010-01-08 11:03|| Front Page Top

#6 politics aside, I thought it was a pretty cool looking boat...

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2010-01-08 11:19|| 2010-01-08 11:19|| Front Page Top

#7 An experimental prototype composite hull is not the vessel I would choose to play chicken with fishing vessels in high-latitude waters.

Posted by Pstanley 2010-01-08 13:24|| 2010-01-08 13:24|| Front Page Top

#8 No insurance company in the world is stupid enough to pay off on this claim.

Especially after these morons basically admitted that they planned to put the boat in harm's way, and plan to continue.

Posted by gorb 2010-01-08 13:48|| 2010-01-08 13:48|| Front Page Top

#9 The SSCS left her to drift....

The abandoned Ady Gil still afloat

Posted by john frum 2010-01-08 15:31|| 2010-01-08 15:31|| Front Page Top

#10 and left evidence behind...

The Shonan Maru No.2 retrieved several lethal-force bowgun arrows

Posted by john frum 2010-01-08 15:33|| 2010-01-08 15:33|| Front Page Top

#11 An they're flying a false flag

The Norwegian flag flew from the Sea Shepherd ship, "Bob Barker" as the ship approached the Japanese whalers on Wednesday. Abuse of the flag is prohibited by law. PHOTO: REUTERS / The Institute of Cetacean Research

Foreign Ministry protests against the misuse of the flag
The use of flags at sea are strictly regulated, and the Norwegian Penal Code states that it is illegal to sail under false flags.

"Registrar of Ships as unjustified causes a Norwegian flag or other Norwegian nationality mark, or in Norwegian waters, leading some flag or nationality note that he is not entitled to be punished by fines or imprisonment for up to 1 year," said the Penal Code § 423
. - We have written a letter in which we make it very clear that we do not appreciate such a misuse of the Norwegian flag, "said Bjorn Svenungsen communications at the Foreign Ministry told Aftenposten.no.

Posted by john frum 2010-01-08 16:02|| 2010-01-08 16:02|| Front Page Top

#12 . - We have written a letter in which we make it very clear that we do not appreciate such a misuse of the Norwegian flag, "said Bjorn Svenungsen communications at the Foreign Ministry told Aftenposten.no.

Jeeze Louise, what happened to the Viking spirit? Talk about neutering.....

Posted by Alaska Paul 2010-01-08 17:12|| 2010-01-08 17:12|| Front Page Top

#13 Under the sea
Under the sea
Darling it's better
Crashing the whaler
Take it from me
On the surface they whale all day
Out of work we have time to play
While we devotin'
Full time protestin'
Under the sea

Posted by BigEd 2010-01-08 17:34|| 2010-01-08 17:34|| Front Page Top

#14 Check out the second video in Tim Blair's post. Note the wake. The Ady Gil was clearly accelerating into the ship's path.

I do not approve of whale hunting, but I approve even less of jackassery on this scale.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2010-01-08 20:40|| 2010-01-08 20:40|| Front Page Top

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