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Whale Wars shenanigans and Discovery

Posted on 8/28/09 at 11:32 am
Posted by CAD703X
Liberty Island
Member since Jul 2008
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Posted on 8/28/09 at 11:32 am
Just had an epiphany about the 'accidental ramming' incident last week. We've been played by Discovery.

Facts
- His boat isn't as fast as the harpoon ships; admitted this over and over
- helicopter pilot took off knowing something was going to happen which would result in his helicopter being damanged or lost at sea
- Paul Wilson has a long history of ramming other ships

"Story" as told by Discovery animations and crew of Steve Irwin in 'sound bytes':
- going to try to cut between harpoon ship and main ship to 'cut the line' for the whale (see first 'fact' above)
- animation showed how this was supposed to happen
- animations obviously had to have been created long after the incident which happened in March and the footage was released by Australian feds
- crew 'interviews'? taken during the crisis..or filmed long after the incident.

Given all the evidence above, its clear to me dickwad captain never had any intention of severing teh whale line. Clearly the harpoon ship moves past him like he's standing still and gets into positino to transfer the whale so how the hell could he think he would be able to thread that needle?

The way his ship nudged into the harpoon ship (under almost full power) and his gleeful look as he rammed it..showed that was his only intention all along. There was no plan to sever the whale line.

The fact Discovery channel propoganda-generating machine went to work creating the illusion this was the plan and going so far as to create actual animations is disgraceful and takes manipulating people to a whole new level.

This post was edited on 8/28/09 at 11:59 am
Posted by nino2469
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Sep 2004
5526 posts
Posted on 8/28/09 at 11:34 am to
way too much time on your hands
Posted by blueboy
Member since Apr 2006
56638 posts
Posted on 8/28/09 at 11:48 am to
Severing the line is no more legal than ramming the whalers, but yeah, you only have to look at the goofy, delighted expression on his face to realize that ramming was the "plan" all along.

I think the whalers would be well within their rights to start shooting if the Sea Shepherd gets too close in the future.
Posted by Coon
La 56 Southbound
Member since Feb 2005
18492 posts
Posted on 8/28/09 at 1:40 pm to
i, in no way, dispute what you're saying about the capt's final plan but i just want to point out a few things:

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His boat isn't as fast as the harpoon ships; admitted this over and over


true, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the NM and the NM3 would be traveling at full speed diring the transfer (i'd assume they'd rather be stopped but that obviously wasn't going to happen)

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- helicopter pilot took off knowing something was going to happen which would result in his helicopter being damanged or lost at sea


uh, ya think? minutes earlier they came within feet of getting hit when they cut off the NM. that dude (in my opinion) is a paid employee and he didn't want to get hurt of get and he knew the potential of what could happen.

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Paul Wilson has a long history of ramming other ships


agreed

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- going to try to cut between harpoon ship and main ship to 'cut the line' for the whale (see first 'fact' above)


i think that discovery was only going with what they were told the plan was.

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animation showed how this was supposed to happen


see above

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- animations obviously had to have been created long after the incident which happened in March and the footage was released by Australian feds


again, this was a documentary and they were only telling the story. i don't think they were there to judge. and if they were, don't you think they would have shown the sea shepards in a better light than the idiots that they are?

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- crew 'interviews'? taken during the crisis..or filmed long after the incident.


these were obviously filmed after becuase they didn't prepare then stop and interview then proceed. and again, these people though at the time and still do think that they did the right thing.

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The fact Discovery channel propoganda-generating machine went to work creating the illusion this was the plan and going so far as to create actual animations is disgraceful and takes manipulating people to a whole new level.



again, i disagee with this... there's nothing that they did that made them look good in the situation. and again, i'm not saying that plan #1 in the capt's head wasn't "RAM"...

and one more thing... IF ANYONE KNOWS WHERE I CAN FIND A NISHIN MURU CREW SHIRT LET ME KNOW!!!!!!!!!
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