Wikipedia:
“In warfare, ramming is a technique that was used in air, sea and land combat. The term originated from battering ram, a siege weapon used to bring down fortifications by hitting it with the force of the ram’s momentum….”
No matter how many times I watch this video, I get the same result. The front of the Sea Shepherd boat hits the SIDE of the Japanese boat. If the Sea Shepherd was rammed, wouldn’t it have been the other way around?
Of note as well, it would appear that the Japanese vessels attempts to avoid collision at the last moment, trying to turn away. At all times though the key is: the Japanese vessel is IN FRONT of the Sea Shepherd. If the Japanese were trying to ram the Sea Shepherd vessel, wouldn’t they have been behind, and not side on?
According to the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea section 15, “When two power-driven vessels are crossing, the vessel which has the other on the starboard [right-hand] side must give way.”
In the situation shown in this video, the Sea Shepherd vessel Bob Barker should be giving way to the Japanese ship by turning away from it.
Of course they shouldn't be putting themselves so close to another vessel to begin with. It's a captain's job to operate his vessel safely. In the open ocean, these vessels have no business being within 500 metres of each other.
Stil
you read my mind, quite literally. The rules of the sea is something that I thought to look up; you've just answered that for me.
Like you, I'm dead against the whale hunt, but likewise these clowns don't help, they hurt the cause.