Japanese whalers run over Sea Shepherd boat

Anti-whaling activists accuse Japan fleet of attack

Anti-whaling activists have accused a Japanese vessel of ramming their high-tech speed boat during a confrontation in the Southern Ocean.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society says its vessel was sliced in half, but all six crew were rescued.

Earlier the campaigners - who are trying to stop Japan's whaling fleet - said they threw chemicals onto the whaling boat to prevent it being used.

Japan's fisheries agency said the group had obstructed the whalers' operations.

The agency said it was the fourth time this season that the anti-whaling activists had interfered with the whaling fleet's operations, Kyodo news agency reported
In recent years the two sides have confronted each other regularly in waters around the Antarctic.

"This seriously escalates the whole situation," Sea Shepherd spokesman Paul Watson said, according to The Age newspaper in Australia.

The activists said their boat, the Ady Gil - a high-tech speed boat that resembles a stealth bomber - had its bow sheared off in the clash near Commonwealth Bay.

The Sea Shepherd group sends boats to Antarctic waters each year to try to stop the Japanese whaling fleet hunting whales under the auspices of a scientific research programme.

Japan abandoned commercial whaling in 1986 after agreeing to a global moratorium but international rules allow it to carry out a limited whaling programme.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8442808.stm



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Ady Gil in a collision with Japanese whaling vessel.

Who rammed who?
Who had more control to avoid the situation?
Who cares about semantics and wants to cry about it on youtube?

(edited because people were quick to judge)

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[alroverMG]

The terrorists get bitten! It's great to see sea Shepard getting a taste of their own medicine. They are nothing less than terrorists and pirate and should be hunted down and face criminal charges in the same way the Somali pirates are.

[devildoc225]

@DritonGusia Come down off the cross asshole. We need the wood. Bout' time these rich trust fund types with nothing better to do get crushed. Liberal douchebag.

[whazzap256]

they should have backed up and rammed them again

[Dorminay42]

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[XequR]

@DritonGusia you must be 7 years old haha

[DritonGusia]

@XequR piss off cocksucker!

[XequR]

@DritonGusia stfu idiot

[chiefkyle1]

lmfao Move bitch, get out the way. Either back up, or get crushed.

[DritonGusia]

we need to gun these japs in the most brutal way possible! We must cut of their balls and throw them there at the sea and leave em to be eaten later! We must make a Hell before death for all animal abusers torture them in the most morbid way one can imagine!