Earthace

[arragon5481]

i hope 1 day i can get a boat like that

[MrTEAMKILLER99]

must be skary when your in a boat 35 ft under water

[hup2thepenguin]

The Japanese destroyed the fastest boat in the world!

[escueladeleyi]

great it runs on biodiesel, however there is not enough biodiesel for us all to use! better drill baby drill.

[MATUSOWNED]

Godspeed, Captain Pete Bethune !!!!

[undertakerkid]

So there are two next Year just make the 22 ft one longer and wider it would save money and it would not take long to remake it

[keionsegg]

hope captain peters trialgoes well

[soakupthesunman]

folks, this boat is still afloat and trailing an oil slick throught the Southern ocean.

And the dipshit who designed it is in a Japanese brig, hopefully being fed nothing but whale meat and Saki.

What an asshole.

[1mcguyver]

dont chase the whaler,do like they did back in the day,world war ,take out the jap again and you soulved the problem ,do you remember gooks when you fucked with the white man,people get fucked up when they fuck with the cowboy,

[nick42p]

Good news! New photos from the Japanese show that it is still afloat. Maybe someone could go and try to salvage it? I am just happy that it isn't on the bottom yet if this is true.

[cplai]

@nick42p Yes, it is a trimaran with literally 3 hulls. Looks like the outrigger hulls kept it afloat.

[SeaShepherdSecurity]

if the Sea Shepherd M/Y Bob Barker towed the vessel backwards and tried to cover the hole maybe they would of saved it.

[JulioHooligan]

R.I.P. EarthRace.  What a boat. What a race it fought.

[nick42p]

Here is a boat that set records and deserved to be enshrined at a naval yard museum. Instead Sea Shepherd buys it and puts it into use in a job it is not built for. Then they go out and they get it sunk.

1. Buy great looking boat.

2. Sink it.

3. ???

4. Profit!!!

So annoying. I hate whaling but this was really questionable.

[cplai]

@nick42p I read in the news that the sponsors are so rich that they want to build another one. But I agree with you that a rebuilt ship is not the same as the real one that broke the records, at least not for the museums,

[MATUSOWNED]

@cplai Ady Gil, the man behind the name of the ship,has sent out feelers for "donations" for a secondary ship--Too bad America is too poor for such an endeavor..( No offense, just a comment,mates.)

[masterfox3000]

DELICIOUS WHALE.

[mykonos329]

HAHA..........the ocean could not damage her, but a Whaling boat destroyed her..here is a thought.....make biodiesel out of whale blubber....LMAO

[genestarwindjf80]

That is one kick ass boat. I would love to ride it myself one day. I was just watching this on Wealth TV. But too bad the bio-fuel drains your wallet to refuel. The boat kinda reminds me of the Batboat.

[devilsoflife]

I hate whalers

[CrimeAvenger2]

Japan Coast Guard " TSURUGI " class Displacement: : 220 tons Length : 50.0m Beam : 8.0m Speed : 50 knots over Water jet × 3 M61 Vulcan & Auto control system Sisters * PS 201 Tsurugi * PS 202 Hotaka * PS 203 Norikura * PS 204 Kaimon * PS 205 Asama * PS 206 HouOu We'll be waiting, Sea Shepherd !!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

[StargateSG1Rules]

the TV show whale wars has got one of the earth race vessels and painted it black

[BenzTech79]

i wanna have this in a scaled down radio controlled version! i bet it's fun!

[Jakeyboyshow]

Seen it and been on it! awesome engineering, but WAY more cramped inside than this vid shows! Hats off to the crew!

[TeQuiero02]

I want it!! <3

[panicatthediscorox15]

I have seen this boat and i helped bring it in @ South Bank!!!!!!!

[ohgoshdirector]

yes we need biofuel but we need to educate and uniform the supply chain. if we dont were basically chopping down trees to make a fence around a forest.

[cplai]

Biofuel is NOT a solution. Wind, solar, wave power should be used first. The recent shift to grow yellow corns for the E85 fuel has driven up wheat flour price up 3X, rice price up 2X. Farm land and farmers are limited resource. You have a choice to feed the cars or to feed people. I am all for biofuel from bio-product waste, like recycling food scraps. However, growing corn for fuel instead of wheat for food is just stupid.

[ohgoshdirector]

i agree, i saw a programme the other day where a mechanic who ran his car on curry oil from his local indian takeaway. which i thought was cool. i wasnt promoting grown crops i was just trying to explain to some of these that bio fuel is very wastefull. cheers anyhow, be good.

[cplai]

Keep an eye on those researches that use genetic engineering to alter some algae to produce fuel. Imagine a pumping station that circulate live algae thru clear pipes under the sun and at the other end the algae dies and leaves fuel by-products behind. So at one end of the machine, algae multiply and grow and combine CO2 and Water into hydrocarbons by photosynthesis. At the other end, fuel and dead algae are collected. If peanuts can make oil, its gene can turn algae into a diesel maker too.

[ohgoshdirector]

the problem isnt the fuel itself its the way its harvested. the main issue is that thier isnt a single uniform way of doing it and no governing body to make sure its done properly, so we can have one farm producing it from a good crop with low emissions ie :machinery:tractors:trucks to take it to the plant. and on the other hand we can have a farmer selling it for big money but producing more carbon tonage than petrol or diesel just by making biofuel inefficiantly.

[CBMashup]

That's the same problem common with all boats. This is designed specifically with extreme conditions in mind. Notice how it's also tapered on the sides. I bet even if it rolled, and righted itself (undoubtedly designed to do this) it would probably be in one piece, I wouldn't even be surprised it the engines kept going.

Now consider the same scenario with a launch, yacht, ferry, or cargo ship rolling = crippled or Sinking ship.

This has next generation written all over it.

[redbrest]

No way would this boat right itself. You'd be trapped.

It would take a real dummy to do it though. Cats are super stable. Take what I say as gospel.

Iv got 30 years sea time.

[cxon]

What if the waves come frome the side?

[Hupfgemuse]

What a waste of energy! Bio fuel doesn't make it any better. Making oil out of crops in fact does even accelerate the destruction of this planet, socially and environmentally. And for what? For a braindead record hunt. Or is this an PR project for new war ship technology?

[irishdigitaldiver]

Biofuels release less greenhouse gases than most other hydrocarbons. Unlike fossil hydrocarbons biofuels are sustainable, farmers in the third world have already started to benefit from selling rape-seeds etc to biofuel companies. When fossil hydrocarbons run out in about 50yrs biofuels are the only practical alternative. Warships have used the wave piercing design since the early 1900's And btw don't waste your energy or our time talking about things you don't understand.

[Hupfgemuse]

Your brave new biofuel world: The splendid rainforest of Borneo and Sumatra are almost gone. With them, our next of kin, the Orang Utang, and millions of other species that might not even have got a name before their extinction. The natives have become starving slaves on contaminated plantations. Once it was their land, now it belongs to foreign investors and a corrupted administration which squelches any protest. Biofuels are big money for the agribusiness and a placebo for the public opinion.

[irishdigitaldiver]

From your comment it is clear that you dont have a full grasp of science and ergo you comments are somewhat mute. Chimps are our closest primate link not Orang Utang. Yes people will suffer but then again they always have done with anything we in the western world have done. We in the west will have to realise ways to protect the indigenous peoples/ecosystems while maintaining current levels of growth. But I defy you to name another, better solution to the impending fuel crisis.

[pomadom]

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