The anti-whaling organisation Sea Shepherd says its ship deliberately side-swiped a Japanese whaling supply ship yesterday.At the weekend, a collision occurred between Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise and a whaling vessel, Nisshin Maru. Japan blames Greenpeace for that incident, but conservationists say the whalers were the aggressors. The Nisshin Maru is more than twice as long and six times heavier than the Arctic Sunrise. The impact has left the Sunrise "battered and bruised" but luckily no crew members were injured.
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The video shows Greenpeace did the ramming and lied about it in their press release
The video shows nothing of the like Greenpeace ramming the whalers, although I believe Greenpeace have exaggerated the ramming claim. First thing you must know is that the Greenpeace ship had right of way. Also you should take into account the speeds of the ships, in the second part of the Greenpeace video you can see that the Greenpeace ship is at a near stand still whilst the whaling vessel travels relatively quickly. Also from the video we can see there is no damage to the whaling ship whilst the GP ship has a 1.5 metre dent. The Greenpeace is less than 5 times the weight of the whaling ship. Whats more GP is a peaceful organisation and each individual holds this ideology deep in there hearts, they would not give this up for a publicity stunt.
The Age today in Melbourne highlights the spin put out by Greenpeace. The Jap ship was trying to avoid other activists and GP should have turned to avoid collision.
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