88 Replies to “If We Stop Eating Whale Meat, The Terrorists Win”
F@#ka you whaaaaaale …………..
F@#ka you dofeeeen …..
… and where do they get those cool toys , Robin should put down the Bat Bong and steer the freaking Bat Boat .
I’m not a fan of Japanese whaling.
In any case it’s pretty clear that the smaller vessel advanced into the path of the larger vessel, which tried to avoid the collision.
Are there any SDA readers out there who can translate Japanese to English?
darwin aware candidates if nothing else 🙂
I should say darwin award*
Hi, this is Vince for slap-chop.
You’ll love my eco-nuts!
First reaction to this: WTF? The Bat Boat? Second reaction, surely the real Bat Boat would not suffer that much damage. Third reaction, the Bat Boat looks like it accelerated into the ship at the last couple of seconds. Fourth reaction, even though with comparable vessels, the vessel to starboard would have right of way, in the case of larger less-maneuvrable vessels and smaller more-agile vessels, the small vessel should take action to avoid a collision or being caught in the larger vessel’s wash. Clearly this was not done, and of course, there was no intention of doing that. I think Nelson Muntz would have the last word on this.
The real Bat Boat ….. heh .
Beautiful…too bad Gore and Suzuki weren’t aboard
Larsen:
I agree. The Greenpeace boat did nothing to avoid the collision. Considering how fast and agile the boat was, this is negligence or worse.
In fact watching the wake at the back of the boat, it appears to have accelerated into the whaling vessel seconds before contact.
Too bad the Japanese didn’t sink ’em. Better luck next time lads, try firing a harpoon or two into their fancy fiberglass yacht.
I think the worm has turned on the environmentalists.
Call people something there not long enough, & they will strike out.
Now if they only take the leaders of Peta & put them on Survival in perpetualality.
Small craft must give way to larger vessels.Letcher Barker is out 2 mil $$.Love It…
While I find whaling to be an unnecessary pursuit with all of these scrumptious cows around, I think the terrorists got what they deserved. It’s also freakin hilarious that the guy manning the water cannon didn’t bother to stop blasting them in the face after the impact.
Apparently the bat-boat was named the Bob Barker as he donated some $5 million towards it. Come ooon up! I too, am not all that big on the Japanese whaling fleet and the lie that it’s all about research, but then again … this was really cool.
Sea Shepard gives “Stuck on Stupid” a whole new meaning.
They don’t show much fear in spite of the thousands of tonnes of steel they’re recklessly navigating toward. It’s only when the soapy water is fired at them near the end of the clip that they backup, realizing that they’re in mortal danger.
how many gallons per mile does the batboat get?
Everybody’s a bad guy in that video. Greenpeace are getting a taste of their own medicine. The Japanese are killing animals that should be left alone.
The shot by the stern firehose would truly have sucked.
That temperature water at fire main pressure?
All the guys on the bat boat are STILL waiting for them drop. Assuming they had any to begin with.
The Japanese are killing animals that should be left alone.
What ? …… they didn’t rescue those fools ?
Jon:
Studying the wake, I don’t think they were backing up. If anything, they appeared to be accelerating forward.
It might be that in a panic the skipper accelerated forward rather than back, not the first time that mistake has been made in a boat. Or perhaps the skipper was trying to cut across the front of the whaling vessel and misjudged.
The eco-twits moved into the path of the whaler. The fastest boat in the world operated by the slowest pilot in the world.
I’m confused.
Which award where the guys in the Moonbat boat going after?
Darwin or the one for blatant disregard of the laws of physics?
On a serious note. I’m quite sure the captain of the whaler is more than acquainted with the rules of the sea. In International sea law negligence can have some $erious repurcusions.
Rules of the Road indicate that in the event of collision, vessels shall alter course to starboard. The smaller boat was in the wrong from the git’go. Crunch. Lucky no one killed.
The rammed boat was/is named the Ady Gil. The Sea Shepherd mother ship is called the Bob Barker.
Apparently Watson conned $5 Million out of senile old Barker to rename one of their tramps.
Rumor has it that given the demise of the $1.5 million Ady Gil, Watson is now actively pursuing Pamela Anderson as a potential mark.
Paul is seeking sponsorship for a new “way cool” looking boat with which to maintain his profile and Pammy seems like the logical choice for the project.
The new attack vessel would of course be named the Pamela Anderson but the design would be radically different than the Ady Gil.
The Pamela Anderson will be a catamaran rather than a trimaran and will incorporate silicone filled bows that are said to be able to sustain impacts without shearing off like the prow of the Ady Gil.
Additionally, the Pamela Anderson will have a rounder stern than the Ady Gil but unfortunately can not be equipped with navigational equipment due to conflicts with the silicone systems.
Syncro
“You scratched my anchor!”
Oh bouy – guess the bat-mo-boat’s force field was in for repairs that day.
According to that fount of corrupted information Wikipedia:
“As of 2009, Paul Watson has said that the organization has sunk ten whaling ships while also destroying millions of dollars worth of equipment.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Shepherd_Conservation_Society
So the score as of January 7 2010 is:
Sea Shepherd Society 10 Whalers 1
Hey Batman someone stole your Bat Boat.
IMO it looks like the Japs were the aggressors in this case. There are two videos out. Apparently the smaller boat was having engine problems, that’s why it wasn’t moving for most of the video. In the video shot from the Bob Barker, the Jap ship clearly steers towards the smaller ship, probably trying to play “chicken”. Yet they overshot it a bit.
As someone with some marine experience i would suggest the Nippon vessel appears to have been the aggressor in the collision, especially in the second video posted on the linked Tim Blair site. It may have been out of frustration after having been buzzed by the batty black boat brats. And they were dumb in underestimating the maneuvrability of the picket ship. They should have been in full reverse earlier. All said, i do think their whaling industry is a subsidised sham for local political purposes. Like buying off the maritimes or Quebec here with whatever it takes to keep the libranos in power.
I do a fair amount of sailing. It does appear the Japanese ship did make a turn into the stupid bat boat. Why they sat there I don’t know.
But if you want to play with the wolves, don’t piss with the puppies,
The bat boat is actually responsible for the death of one innocent person it ran over. So its all fair.
I looked at the video in stop motion (by holding the mouse pointer on the playback slider and moved back and forth).
I find the frothy wake behind the batboat is comparatively small at the 14 second mark. but 4 seconds later at the 18 second mark on the verge of impact it has enlarged significantly. if it was engine trouble it cleared up at the worst moment.
by the 20 second mark the initial water froth constituting the batboat wake gets all mixed up with the wash of the collision.
batboats manned by batty people.
activist haven’t learned yet that there are billions of video recording devices out there. their lies and exaggerations don’t hold up any more.
billions? uh, millions….
the moonbat boat ?
When I look at the video it looks like the whaling boat was making a hard left turn at the start and for some reason released the rudder and started going straight which resulted in the collision.
If I am correct then it is plausible that whalers was trying to avoid the boat and pulled out of its turn when it looked like the boat had stopped. Unfortnately, the bat boat starting moving again and a collision occurred.
No accident here, this is exactly what Sea Shepherd hoped would happen. Anything to get into the headlines.
Looking at the wake per curious_george my sense is that the moonbat boat was idling and, as the Japs’ bow passed, kicked it into forward with predictable, if slightly surprising, results. Run a small fiberglass object into a large, moving, steel object and the result is pretty much a given.
Dopes.
Here’s an idea clipped from those AGW types.
How about instead of spending all that cash on ships and boats to harrass the whalers and sealers, they should be putting it into a fund, lets call it anti-whaling credits or some such. Then they can buy these sailors and sealers out of the business.
So how many people will they pledge to support?
After all the folks that are participating in the offending activity are only doing so to achieve a tolerable standard of living that the latte crowd take for granted.
All a your boats belong a to us.
Greenpeace needs a new multi-million dollar vessel so pony up whale huggers.
These idiots want to confront the whaling ship in cold artic waters then having made a complete ass of themselves for a few weeks, can spend the rest o the year skipping around in their batyacht seeking funds from batty people.
Could Pamela Anderson wear Mae Wests?
Dang… that is one MEAN boat.
Anyway, this just proves the foregone conclusion in my mind about how it all went down. Paul Watson was on the radio yesterday saying how the GP boat just sat there and the whaling vessel rammed it. This video clearly shows the GP boat with twin motors running, moving forward, wake churning up behind it.
Idiots.
Dang… that is one MEAN boat.
Anyway, this just proves the foregone conclusion in my mind about how it all went down. Paul Watson was on the radio yesterday saying how the GP boat just sat there and the whaling vessel rammed it. This video clearly shows the GP boat with twin motors running, moving forward, wake churning up behind it.
Idiots.
Clearly the one clip shows the Moon bats accelerating just before impact. However that didn’t stop CTV just now showing the other clip and blaming the whalers for the incident.
I am writing CTV to complain about their incomplete reporting!!
Just another day in the great sacrifice for Mother Gaia
F@#ka you whaaaaaale …………..
F@#ka you dofeeeen …..
… and where do they get those cool toys , Robin should put down the Bat Bong and steer the freaking Bat Boat .
I’m not a fan of Japanese whaling.
In any case it’s pretty clear that the smaller vessel advanced into the path of the larger vessel, which tried to avoid the collision.
Are there any SDA readers out there who can translate Japanese to English?
darwin aware candidates if nothing else 🙂
I should say darwin award*
Hi, this is Vince for slap-chop.
You’ll love my eco-nuts!
First reaction to this: WTF? The Bat Boat? Second reaction, surely the real Bat Boat would not suffer that much damage. Third reaction, the Bat Boat looks like it accelerated into the ship at the last couple of seconds. Fourth reaction, even though with comparable vessels, the vessel to starboard would have right of way, in the case of larger less-maneuvrable vessels and smaller more-agile vessels, the small vessel should take action to avoid a collision or being caught in the larger vessel’s wash. Clearly this was not done, and of course, there was no intention of doing that. I think Nelson Muntz would have the last word on this.
The real Bat Boat ….. heh .
Beautiful…too bad Gore and Suzuki weren’t aboard
Larsen:
I agree. The Greenpeace boat did nothing to avoid the collision. Considering how fast and agile the boat was, this is negligence or worse.
In fact watching the wake at the back of the boat, it appears to have accelerated into the whaling vessel seconds before contact.
Too bad the Japanese didn’t sink ’em. Better luck next time lads, try firing a harpoon or two into their fancy fiberglass yacht.
I think the worm has turned on the environmentalists.
Call people something there not long enough, & they will strike out.
Now if they only take the leaders of Peta & put them on Survival in perpetualality.
Small craft must give way to larger vessels.Letcher Barker is out 2 mil $$.Love It…
While I find whaling to be an unnecessary pursuit with all of these scrumptious cows around, I think the terrorists got what they deserved. It’s also freakin hilarious that the guy manning the water cannon didn’t bother to stop blasting them in the face after the impact.
Apparently the bat-boat was named the Bob Barker as he donated some $5 million towards it. Come ooon up! I too, am not all that big on the Japanese whaling fleet and the lie that it’s all about research, but then again … this was really cool.
Sea Shepard gives “Stuck on Stupid” a whole new meaning.
They don’t show much fear in spite of the thousands of tonnes of steel they’re recklessly navigating toward. It’s only when the soapy water is fired at them near the end of the clip that they backup, realizing that they’re in mortal danger.
how many gallons per mile does the batboat get?
Everybody’s a bad guy in that video. Greenpeace are getting a taste of their own medicine. The Japanese are killing animals that should be left alone.
The shot by the stern firehose would truly have sucked.
That temperature water at fire main pressure?
All the guys on the bat boat are STILL waiting for them drop. Assuming they had any to begin with.
The Japanese are killing animals that should be left alone.
What ? …… they didn’t rescue those fools ?
Jon:
Studying the wake, I don’t think they were backing up. If anything, they appeared to be accelerating forward.
It might be that in a panic the skipper accelerated forward rather than back, not the first time that mistake has been made in a boat. Or perhaps the skipper was trying to cut across the front of the whaling vessel and misjudged.
The eco-twits moved into the path of the whaler. The fastest boat in the world operated by the slowest pilot in the world.
I’m confused.
Which award where the guys in the Moonbat boat going after?
Darwin or the one for blatant disregard of the laws of physics?
On a serious note. I’m quite sure the captain of the whaler is more than acquainted with the rules of the sea. In International sea law negligence can have some $erious repurcusions.
Rules of the Road indicate that in the event of collision, vessels shall alter course to starboard. The smaller boat was in the wrong from the git’go. Crunch. Lucky no one killed.
The rammed boat was/is named the Ady Gil. The Sea Shepherd mother ship is called the Bob Barker.
Apparently Watson conned $5 Million out of senile old Barker to rename one of their tramps.
Rumor has it that given the demise of the $1.5 million Ady Gil, Watson is now actively pursuing Pamela Anderson as a potential mark.
Paul is seeking sponsorship for a new “way cool” looking boat with which to maintain his profile and Pammy seems like the logical choice for the project.
The new attack vessel would of course be named the Pamela Anderson but the design would be radically different than the Ady Gil.
The Pamela Anderson will be a catamaran rather than a trimaran and will incorporate silicone filled bows that are said to be able to sustain impacts without shearing off like the prow of the Ady Gil.
Additionally, the Pamela Anderson will have a rounder stern than the Ady Gil but unfortunately can not be equipped with navigational equipment due to conflicts with the silicone systems.
Syncro
“You scratched my anchor!”
Oh bouy – guess the bat-mo-boat’s force field was in for repairs that day.
According to that fount of corrupted information Wikipedia:
“As of 2009, Paul Watson has said that the organization has sunk ten whaling ships while also destroying millions of dollars worth of equipment.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Shepherd_Conservation_Society
So the score as of January 7 2010 is:
Sea Shepherd Society 10 Whalers 1
Hey Batman someone stole your Bat Boat.
IMO it looks like the Japs were the aggressors in this case. There are two videos out. Apparently the smaller boat was having engine problems, that’s why it wasn’t moving for most of the video. In the video shot from the Bob Barker, the Jap ship clearly steers towards the smaller ship, probably trying to play “chicken”. Yet they overshot it a bit.
As someone with some marine experience i would suggest the Nippon vessel appears to have been the aggressor in the collision, especially in the second video posted on the linked Tim Blair site. It may have been out of frustration after having been buzzed by the batty black boat brats. And they were dumb in underestimating the maneuvrability of the picket ship. They should have been in full reverse earlier. All said, i do think their whaling industry is a subsidised sham for local political purposes. Like buying off the maritimes or Quebec here with whatever it takes to keep the libranos in power.
I do a fair amount of sailing. It does appear the Japanese ship did make a turn into the stupid bat boat. Why they sat there I don’t know.
But if you want to play with the wolves, don’t piss with the puppies,
The bat boat is actually responsible for the death of one innocent person it ran over. So its all fair.
I looked at the video in stop motion (by holding the mouse pointer on the playback slider and moved back and forth).
I find the frothy wake behind the batboat is comparatively small at the 14 second mark. but 4 seconds later at the 18 second mark on the verge of impact it has enlarged significantly. if it was engine trouble it cleared up at the worst moment.
by the 20 second mark the initial water froth constituting the batboat wake gets all mixed up with the wash of the collision.
batboats manned by batty people.
activist haven’t learned yet that there are billions of video recording devices out there. their lies and exaggerations don’t hold up any more.
billions? uh, millions….
the moonbat boat ?
When I look at the video it looks like the whaling boat was making a hard left turn at the start and for some reason released the rudder and started going straight which resulted in the collision.
If I am correct then it is plausible that whalers was trying to avoid the boat and pulled out of its turn when it looked like the boat had stopped. Unfortnately, the bat boat starting moving again and a collision occurred.
No accident here, this is exactly what Sea Shepherd hoped would happen. Anything to get into the headlines.
Looking at the wake per curious_george my sense is that the moonbat boat was idling and, as the Japs’ bow passed, kicked it into forward with predictable, if slightly surprising, results. Run a small fiberglass object into a large, moving, steel object and the result is pretty much a given.
Dopes.
Here is a split view.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXWD_BAkpII&feature=related
Here’s an idea clipped from those AGW types.
How about instead of spending all that cash on ships and boats to harrass the whalers and sealers, they should be putting it into a fund, lets call it anti-whaling credits or some such. Then they can buy these sailors and sealers out of the business.
So how many people will they pledge to support?
After all the folks that are participating in the offending activity are only doing so to achieve a tolerable standard of living that the latte crowd take for granted.
All a your boats belong a to us.
Greenpeace needs a new multi-million dollar vessel so pony up whale huggers.
These idiots want to confront the whaling ship in cold artic waters then having made a complete ass of themselves for a few weeks, can spend the rest o the year skipping around in their batyacht seeking funds from batty people.
Could Pamela Anderson wear Mae Wests?
Dang… that is one MEAN boat.
Anyway, this just proves the foregone conclusion in my mind about how it all went down. Paul Watson was on the radio yesterday saying how the GP boat just sat there and the whaling vessel rammed it. This video clearly shows the GP boat with twin motors running, moving forward, wake churning up behind it.
Idiots.
Dang… that is one MEAN boat.
Anyway, this just proves the foregone conclusion in my mind about how it all went down. Paul Watson was on the radio yesterday saying how the GP boat just sat there and the whaling vessel rammed it. This video clearly shows the GP boat with twin motors running, moving forward, wake churning up behind it.
Idiots.
Clearly the one clip shows the Moon bats accelerating just before impact. However that didn’t stop CTV just now showing the other clip and blaming the whalers for the incident.
I am writing CTV to complain about their incomplete reporting!!
Just another day in the great sacrifice for Mother Gaia
Shine a green LASER in MY eyes, and see what happens….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6MymqeXhl0