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[mikemill]

Call me crazy but I believe whales belong in the ocean as oppossed to on Japanese dinner menus...

You are crazy.

 

[Scott L]

Did you get a chance to expand on your thoughts from post 16? I am curious to what you were alluding to.

The onus is on you my fellow diver to explain why it is a good idea for the Japanese to hunt and kill whales by the thousands in the name of "research" when the vast majority of the world's population thinks it a very bad idea...

 

[Docc]

the vast majority of the world's population thinks it a very bad idea...

The vast majority isn't always right......it was a majority that elected our current president and congress.

 

[Scott L]

The vast majority isn't always right......it was a majority that elected our current president and congress.

I would be totally defenesless in arguing with you on that point...

 

[mike_s]

Here is another video from earlier the same day clearly and irrefutably showing the Ady Gil cutting in front of the Japanese ship (with a rope trailing).

You can see it was only a matter of time before their idiot tactics would get their boat sunk.

http://www.icrwhale.org/eng/100106SS.wmv

Hard to judge distance, but I would suggest the Ady Gil cuts right across the path of the whaling vessel less than 50 yards away.

I think that the Ady Gil is putting out a net that they are towing with a rope.

The only reason I could see them deploying a net it to release it to foul the whaling ships propellers. (or pull it around the ship and circle it until the propellers are fouled. )


Makes me wonder if they were trying to do the same thing when they got hit. ?

 

[StevenN]

No need to get pissy geoff, remember you were the one that googled and posted personal info about me in the past.

Now we can all get back to a civil discussion.

 

[Geoff_H]

The onus is on you my fellow diver to explain why it is a good idea for the Japanese to hunt an kill whales by the thousands in the name of "research" when the vast majority of the world's population thinks it a very bad idea...

OK, so you can't back up your statement in post 16 - thanks for making that clear. Let's leave innuendo out from now on and concentrate on the facts then?

Moving on to your next point - I eat fish, do you? The Japanese take hundreds of whales a year, not thousands. The annual quota for minke whales is 440. The estimate population of minke whales is estimated at well over half a million - some estimates put it closer to a million.

I am sure you can do the maths. 440/800,000 = 0.06%

I suggest there are far more pressing ecological concerns on the planet than this level of whale fishing.

 

[wardric]

No need to get pissy geoff, remember you were the one that googled and posted personal info about me in the past.

Now we can all get back to a civil discussion.

geez! you can find anything on Google these days!!!

 

[StevenN]

geez! you can find anything on Google these days!!!

Just a lesson learned. You should have a different username for every forum you belong to. No big deal but it was kind of strange.

 

[letterboy]

so are we all in agreement that the SS and :ss: are both cohorts and idgiots . . .