Ady Gil loses bow to Japanese whaling vessel.

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's fast new trimaran, sitting dead in the water, appears to have been deliberately rammed and critically damaged by the much larger Japanese whaling ship (the Shonan Maru No. 2), despite claims from some that the Ady Gil rammed it. Here is the footage from the Japanese ship: judge for yourself.

Did the Ady Gil attempt to start its engines and get away, only to fail? Did it first try to move forward, then backward after the ramming? Hopefully further investigation will clarify the matter, but regardless one has to ask why the Shonan Maru No. 2 was heading directly for the stationary boat in the first place and why did it turn to starboard, t-boning the Ady Gil.

From the start of the video, note that the water cannons are firing and an LRAD is blaring (compare with this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYjdMY...). All of this may have also served to disorient the Ady Gil captain and crew.

Video courtesy of the Institute for Cetacean Research, Japan. www.icrwhale.org

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society website: www.seashepherd.org

NEW FOOTAGE AS OF JANUARY 8, 2010:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CofJkR...

Shows the collision from the point of view of the Ady Gil itself, and most importantly the video begins from well before the collision so we can see that the Shonan Maru No. 2 was clearly at fault, assuming this footage is accurate. Now it is up to the ICR to release more footage to counteract this claim.

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[Mushr00mification]

if you look at other videos the whalers turned into the shepherds.

[jayysmoove23]

Look at a different video with a different angle . The whale vessel should have stayed on course but in stead changed course and delibertly collided with them .

[cristian rodriguez]

Japoneses de mierd.. hay que liquidaros a todos mira como le arrojan agua luego de embestirlo es increible matan ballenas egun ellos con protesto científico y ni bien las cazan las mandan para los restaurantes aguante sea shepard.

[D2ooSAX]

---However, even if whales were exterminated, neither the earth nor the sea dies.

If an atomic test is stopped or a guttation of a factory is stopped, the sea will become beautiful, and a whale also becomes healthy.

Although Japan was continuing whaling, the natural fecundity of a whale is strong and they increased in number too much.

The protection of a whale is a mistake, they(baka S.S) will not notice. Because they are idiot.

[D2ooSAX]

If red meat of a whale is eaten as sliced raw fish or is roasted, it is delicious.

Bacon attaches soy sauce and is eaten.

The tongue of a whale is called "SAEZURI." If this is eaten with a sushi, it is delicious.

Most worlds had whaled a long time ago.

However, although they also ate, in order to mainly use whale oil, they had whaled.

And since the present age they got oil, the whale became unnecessary.

It decided to protect a whale, in order to say the excuse of environmental protection.

[forrestgumball]

Giant whaling ship coming at us? LET ME SET THE PARKING BREAK.

[anna Last]

jAPAN IS GETTING TOO BIG FOR IT'S OWN BRITCHES. IT'S TIME FOR A GOVERNMENT CLASH TO PUT THEM IN THEIR PLACE. BOYCOTT JAPANESE GOODS. LET JAPAN SINK IN THE PACIFIC. THE FISHERMENS FAMILIES SHOULD BE TREATED THE SAME WAY THEY TREAT THE WHALES. GREENPEASCE SHOULD RACK THEM UP LIKE BILLIARD BALLS AND SINK THOSE WHALERS. AMERICA NEEDS TO USE EXTREME FORCE ON JAPAN TO KEEP THEM IN CHECK.

[Vwcumminsrocker]

Keep buying their shitty cars and TV's and they will keep killing whales!