A 40 ton whale prang's a sailboat

[Bone]

I hope nobody minds me redirecting these pics to the SOH. They can be found on numerous sites and news channels, so they're not exactly proprietary.

 

[fsafranek]

Wow, a direct hit.

Watched the old Gregory Peck movie about Capt. Horotia Hornblower of the RN this week. That second shot is what most of those ships looked like after an engagement. Knock the mast down and she's dead in the water.

 

[Toastmaker]

Boat owner should send the bill to the jackass that operates the Sea Sheppard. . .

 

[cheezyflier]

Boat owner should send the bill to the jackass that operates the Sea Sheppard. . .

 

[CybrSlydr]

Boat owner should send the bill to the jackass that operates the Sea Sheppard. . .

While emotionally fitting, I'd go more with criminal, pirate, vandal, etc.

He flies a skull with cross-bones/crook! Jackass indeed. Someone needs to put him in jail. Sooner the better.

 

[jmig]

I wonder what he did to piss the whale off? I thought the first picture might have been one of those photoshopped pictures....until I saw the second picture.

 

[CybrSlydr]

I wonder what he did to piss the whale off? I thought the first picture might have been one of those photoshopped pictures....until I saw the second picture.

My guess is he didn't do anything - looks like the wrong place wrong time to me.

 

[TARPSBird]

The whale better lawyer up. :d

 

[Ghostrider]

2 observations: First, what about the fact that the Japanese "research vessels" are operating in direct violation of the decades old international whaling moratorium? Their claim to be "researching" whales is a pathetic joke to mask their commercial enterprise, while the rest of the world looks the other way. Who's the criminal here? A whole national industry flying in the face of international law, or one ship and a few Zodiacs and some brave men and women trying to enforce it? Sea Sheppard is the criminal - Really? You might want to re-think that.

Second, I sail, and if I get in a whale's way - hey, I'm the one encroaching on his turf, not the other way around. Broaching is a part of his natural behavior. If I'm not willing to play ball with that, I can always stay the F off of the ocean. Whales and their kind have been here for millions of years longer than us naked apes have.

Sorry guys, couldn't let that one go.

 

[CybrSlydr]

Whales are "fish". They deserve no more protection from overfishing than any other fish. This moratorium on whaling is absurd.

Whaling should be subject to the same sort of harvesting limits as any other fish in regards to maintaining the population. A complete moratorium is unnecessary. In some cases, some countries will need to be closely and strictly monitored to make sure they comply with the limits.

What the Sea Sheppards are doing is stupid at best and criminal at next to best.

 

[FAC257]

From the article I was reading earlier today it was saying that several boats were in the area watching the whales. The couple on the sailboat made a simple mistake and sailed into the area under sail power with no engine running. The whale was a young one and they are thinking that the whale simply didn't know the boat was there because he couldn't hear it.

The couple on the sailboat saw the whale coming their way and thought it was going to go under the boat, which obviously it didn't. I could see where a whale making a beeline to go under the boat suddenly coming face to face with a keel hanging down in the way, might make the mistake of going aerial from being startled by an obstruction in it's path that it didn't sense. He pinged just a little too late.

FAC

 

[kilo delta]

Looks like he's GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT!

:d

 

[CybrSlydr]

Looks like he's GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT!

:d

lmfao

Well done, sir.

 

[yank51]

Whales are "fish". They deserve no more protection from overfishing than any other fish. This moratorium on whaling is absurd.

Whaling should be subject to the same sort of harvesting limits as any other fish in regards to maintaining the population. A complete moratorium is unnecessary. In some cases, some countries will need to be closely and strictly monitored to make sure they comply with the limits.

What the Sea Sheppards are doing is stupid at best and criminal at next to best.

Whales are not fish, they are a mammal... Should check here if you'd like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale

 

[Ghostrider]

Whales are "fish". They deserve no more protection from overfishing than any other fish. This moratorium on whaling is absurd./QUOTE]

A whale is a fish? Why don't you research that one a little bit for me, and explain exactly how a whale is different physiologically, neurologically, anatomically, (other than size and shape) from you or I. Please. Help me out here. I have a bachelor's degree in biology, and a doctoral degree, but apparently, I'm really confused.

BTW, even if your assertion had any validity, whales have been over'fished' like few other species in history. Their populations were decimated before the moratorium, and are barely returning to sustainable levels - maybe - after decades of protection. Some species still won't survive even with protection.

 

[CybrSlydr]

I know they're mammals. Hence why I put fish in quotes. As in fishing.

 

[Ghostrider]

"Things are not always as they seem - the humans on Planet earth had always assumed that they were the most intelligent creatures because they had accomplished so much - the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, while all the dolphins (small whales) ever did was muck around in the water having a good time. The dolphins, on the other hand, always assumed that they were the most intelligent creatures on earth - for precisely the same reasons."

- Douglas Adams - Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy

 

[Major_Spittle]

Whales are "fish". They deserve no more protection from overfishing than any other fish. This moratorium on whaling is absurd.

Whaling should be subject to the same sort of harvesting limits as any other fish in regards to maintaining the population. A complete moratorium is unnecessary. In some cases, some countries will need to be closely and strictly monitored to make sure they comply with the limits.

What the Sea Sheppards are doing is stupid at best and criminal at next to best.

You are very ignorant on the subject and should read up on what a whale is and how "overfished" they have been and how easy it is to "fish" them with today's technology.

 

[Ghostrider]

Whales are "fish". They deserve no more protection from overfishing than any other fish. This moratorium on whaling is absurd.

Whaling should be subject to the same sort of harvesting limits as any other fish in regards to maintaining the population. A complete moratorium is unnecessary. In some cases, some countries will need to be closely and strictly monitored to make sure they comply with the limits.

What the Sea Sheppards are doing is stupid at best and criminal at next to best.

Sorry, Buddy, but that's not what this says, or it's clear intent. BTW, fish need to be protected from our depredations too. Mankind is too numerous, too greedy, and too biologically 'successful' for our own good. We are our own worst enemy, and that of the rest of the planet.
We are slowly destroying the miraculous planet we evolved on, and there ain't nowhere else for us to go.

I hope that our species wises up in time to get a little more sustainable way of life.

I'll stop preaching, and get back to CFS2 where I belong, before I get myself in trouble. I"ve said what I need to say.

 

[Wing_Z]

Interesting that Japan takes all the heat for whaling

Maybe it has to do with the tourist industry...

Whatever, here's a list of countries involved with whaling:

Canada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Island of Bequia, Saint Lucia, Japan, Iceland, Norway, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Indonesia, Russia and The United States of America.