re: Whale Wars shenanigans and Discovery

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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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"...

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