Futuristic anti-whale poaching combat boat revealed

[Kshasty]

Source: RIA Novosti

Anti-whaling activists unveiled a new boat to combat Japanese whalers in Antarctic waters.
The futuristic "Ady Gil" boat will leave Hobart, Australia, next Monday to join the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd's flagship "Steve Irwin"

Read more: http://en.rian.ru/video/20091201/157051487.html

[ixion]

1. wow... nice looking boat

that ought to put a bug in the Japanese Whaler's bonnet.

[ManiacJoe]

18. It looks way too fragile for confrontations.

Fast and agile would be its only saving graces.

[backscatter712]

20. Yeah, the boat's built for speed.

Trimaran configuration, aerodynamic shape. I'm not sure what tactics they have in mind.

[endless october]

2. where are the guns?

sink a couple of those fucking poachers.

what are they going to do with an unarmed boat, pull up next to the poachers and shout "booga booga" at them?

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

3. Watch "Whale Wars"

You'll find some very creative versions of "booga booga" that are quite effective.

[endless october]

4. yeah, i haven't seen that show yet.

will check it out.

however, i still think sinking the damned ships and then collecting the criminals for prosecution would be quite effective and immensely satisfying.

[dysfunctional press]

24. the 'whale wars' episode of south park this season is the one to watch...

they nail the lying gasbag paul watson to the wall...literally.

[Richard D]

8. They maneuver to . . .

. . . get between the whalers and the whales. It's actually quite effective in keeping the whales from getting harpooned and in frustrating the hell out of the whalers.

It looked like a huge set of speakers in the back of the boat as well. Wonder if that's what it was.

That had to be one of the most annoying voices I've ever heard.

[imdjh]

11. i wish they would maneuver up to the Nisshin Maru, and sink the fuckers.

And when they are done there, they can head up north and stop the whaling in the Arctic and near Arctic.

[Richard D]

21. Me too.

[Tejas]

5. That vessel will be a deathtrap in the Antarctic - nt

[imdjh]

10. It's iceproof and submersible, ....

... with plasma disrupters and particle weapons that run off the deflector shield. It's awesome.

[dysfunctional press]

6. here's a smaller pic than before...

sorry...

[Withywindle]

19. AWESOME!

It looks like an aquatic Batmobile!

Go, Sea Shepherd!

[StarfarerBill]

7. Wow! This should scare the shit out of the whalers.

:thumbsup:

[Ian David]

9. Fuck-a yoo, Whale! And fuck-a yooo... what the fuck is THAT?

"Fuck-a yoo, Whale! And fuck-a yooo... what the fuck is THAT?"

I think they should have named it The Zig

FOR GREAT JUSTICE!

[flvegan]

12. In other news, the Japanese FAIL to strike the Dutch flag from the Steve Irwin.

SUCK IT, WHALERS!

:rofl:

Godspeed, Sea Shepherd. May Operation Waltzing Matilda be the last time you need to do this.

[TheKentuckian]

13. Meh...I still say put some torpedoes and missiles on that sucker

Send the whalers to Davey Jones' locker.

[flvegan]

14. If they're to be scuttled, it should be done in port.

We don't want anyone getting hurt.

[Thothmes]

15. Some of the posters to this thread seem quite willing

to see hundreds of dead sailors. Heaven forbid kill a whale, no problem killing the crewmen on those Japanese vessels.

[flvegan]

16. I'm against the loss of any life.

Be that life the life of a whale or a whaler. I'd love to see those ships sunk, though.

[Thothmes]

17. agree with you on the lost of life, human or otherwise

that is not what some of the previous posters want thought. They will only be satisfied when the the whalers are dead (davy jones locker), their children orphaned and their wives widowed.

[LeftyMom]

23. Meh, they can post whatever they want, it does no harm.

The folks with the boats are committed to ending this non-violently, and that's what matters.

[imdjh]

27. They know that what they are doing is wrong.

Besides, that's what life rafts are for.


"Are you sorry?"

"Yes."


"Then you can come aboard."

[bridgit]

22. Wow! That thing is cool, I still don't get the whole "we're going to go kill 100's of whales" bit...

I just don't get it and I don't care if nouveau-antique Japanese maidens take *baths* in refined whale oil blubber there has to be a better way

[proteus_lives]

25. Here's how I feel about Whale Whores, excuse me Whale Wars.

South Park says it best:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GosClBN6rzk

[jtuck004]

26. Trojan Whale

They could take the same material and shape it as a whale. Remote control ballast, pink paint with an air-driven cannon. Have it come up off with no other whales off the bow of the whaler and when they fire you coat the front of their ship with stinky pink paint...

After a couple of those the person shooting the harpoon is bound to get shaky...