Sea Shepherd Scuttle Their Own Vessel The Ady Gil?

A deported environmental activist says the leader of anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd ordered him to sink its own boat to raise public sympathy when the boat was damaged by a collision with a Japanese whaling vessel.

Peter Bethune, a former Sea Shepherd skipper, was speaking to Radio New Zealand on Thursday.

Bethune's high-speed boat, the Ady Gil, collided with a Japanese research whaler in the Antarctic Ocean in January, and the conservation group insisted the boat sank due to the damage caused by the collision.

But Bethune said that Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson ordered the ship's sinking to garner sympathy with the public, and that the crew intentionally let water in.

He said the boat was definitely salvageable if towed to the nearest port.

Watson responded in a statement saying that he did not order the sinking and that Bethune was the only person in a position to make such a decision.

Bethune was indicted in February by the Tokyo District Court for illegally boarding a Japanese research whaler and for throwing a bottle of chemicals on deck, causing a crew member to suffer minor injuries. He was sentenced to 2 years in prison, suspended for 5 years, and was deported to New Zealand in July.

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[GeneralJames100]

WHAT A BITCH WATSON

[BulgarianInCanada]

@theinsiderdownunder thats not what I saw on the video. I like Pete its just that there is 0 real proof that Watson did what bethune accused him of.

GO SSCS!!!

[theinsiderdownunder]

@BulgarianInCanada . Pete Bethune does NOT make and did NOT make his own decisions. . watson makes ALL decisions , Pete Bethune is telling the truth , Watson is a lying dirty thug.

[MarineWildLifeNews]

@BulgarianInCanada I know. Pete Bethune announced in on his facebook page that the Japanese did not understand him.

[MarineWildLifeNews]

@BulgarianInCanada I know. Pete Bethune announced in on his facebook page that the Japanese did not understand him.

[MarineWildLifeNews]

@BulgarianInCanada I know. Pete Bethune announced in on his facebook page that the Japanese did not unde

[BulgarianInCanada]

@MarineWildLifeNews its all on video tape and you can clearly see Bethune making his own decisions. Anyway I think that we should forget all this bullshit and focus more on saving those 1035 whales which will be killed by the Japanese unless SSCS finds the whalers early and intervenes.

[MarineWildLifeNews]

@BulgarianInCanada You must not talk to Pete Bethune nor Paul Watson. 

[MarineWildLifeNews]

@BulgarianInCanada Wrong and correct. Pete Bethune posted this on his facebook page "I feel so much better with the weight off my shoulders." Meaning he said "The Ady Gil was scuttled by Sea Shepherd." And later he posted "I'm resigning from SSCS." Before SSCS even posted any thing. And Pete Bethune said yes Paul Watson ordered me to board the vessel. He meant it like Paul Watson wanted me to board the vessel and he said sorry for using the wrong words it was a big understanding.

[BulgarianInCanada]

@MarineWildLifeNews he was trying to get Bethune on board the Barker but decided against it just in case another Sea Shepherd ever found himself in Japan. Also Bethune said to the Japanese that Watson told him to go on the SM2 when on video footage you can see him trying to persuade Watson to let him board the japanese ship. That landed Watson on the INTERPOL Blue list.

Thats why Peter got kicked out of SSCS. He had broken the trust.