new pictures of the "superbad anti-whaling stealth boat" from life magazine

[madrchsod]

this boat has the latest in stealth technology paint.....


http://www.life.com/image/92774936/in-gallery/35982/superbad-antiwhaling-stealth-boat

http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/sea-shepherd-news.html


i can`t wait till the new season of whale wars!

[vadawg]

1. well i guess they can always harpoon it and claim they didnt see it

or run it over..

[NYC_SKP]

26. Duzy!

:rofl:

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2. i think they are counting on all the japanese sailors running to one side of their ship and saying..

"what the fuck was that?" as that bad boy boat screams past.

then the whaling ship capsizes. the end.

[vadawg]

3. fuck that, if godzilla or the fear of him cant keep them off the see this boat aint

[whoneedstickets]

4. Don't want to run into floating ice going 40 knots in that thing...

..unless you are really confident in your survival suit.

[Truth2Tell]

5. All that TeeVee exposure

must have swelled the Sea Shepherd bank account. Fun new toys. I like.

[flvegan]

6. Ady Gil secured that vessel from the Earthrace folks.

Though the tv show hasn't hurt.

Ady Gil deserves the credit for SSCS getting that craft.

[Truth2Tell]

7. I'll be very interested to see

how they use it, tactically speaking.

[vadawg]

8. lol i think the technical term is SPEED BUMP :)

[flvegan]

9. SSCS has stated that they would like to use it, among other ways,

to deliberately place themselves between the harpoons and the whales.

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10. they would like to do that, but based on the seamanship they have displayed on whale wars...

they would be lucky to get that within sight of a whaling ship.

nice folk. good intentions. not sailors...

[underseasurveyor]

11. Surely and hopefully

They'd have an experienced crew commanding that vessel with tactical knowledge of how to run the thing and what it's limits are and not merely a crew of volunteers. THAT would be dumb.

That said, I can't wait to see it in action :applause:

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13. the problem is... this slick little racing boat cannot be carried aboard the sea sheppard...

its going to have to depart oz or nz and head out into those challenging waters on its own. it will need to be tended for fuel and supplies, and it wasn't built for this kind of operation off the coast of antarctica. those seas will probably rip this thing to shreds.

no matter who is sailing it...

[underseasurveyor]

14. Well then what were they thinking?

They know what kind of conditions there are in those seas. I mean WTH.

[vadawg]

15. definetly cant miss TV then, ill have to watch to see its inevitable demise..

[underseasurveyor]

16. Heh

:spank: You are so bad.


:*

[vadawg]

18. lol sorry but i just cant help but watch darwin winners in action

its like watching the idiots hitting the offramps at 80mph in ice, you just know they are gonna go into the fields....

but how are you doing....

[flvegan]

20. You sure you've got the right website here?

Applauding potential harm to peaceful protesting individuals is sort of...freeper douchebaggerish to me.

[vadawg]

21. nope stating that they seem to be darwin award winners in training is just stating an opinion

as i said its stating to look like a crazy reality show and it may be worth watching to see what dumb shit they do with their new boat.

[flvegan]

22. Really?

Your "speed bump" post might suggest otherwise.

Seems like you're cheering for the whalers. Not a surprise, mind you, considering.

[vadawg]

23. nope i just think that these guys are going to get themselves killed

which is okay if thats what they are prepared to do, but in the doing so they may end up killing others as well.... and in nautical terms a boat that size that plays around other big ships is called a speed bump or a dumb torpedo....

[flvegan]

24. Right.

Keep those pom-poms handy, cheerleader.

[vadawg]

25. yeah you keep yours handy in case they kill any of the japanese sailors then

its become a reality TV show..

[flvegan]

27. I wouldn't applaud that.

I'm not like you. I wouldn't relish ANYone getting hurt, killed or otherwise. Again, unlike you.

"Speedbump" is so fucking classy, I don't know what to do with it.

[vadawg]

28. what you do is say i never knew thats what the big ships call the little boats that sail to close

and then next time its fleet week, and you are in a bar with some nautical gentlemen present you pull it from your memory, they laugh and then you drink more beer..

[flvegan]

29. You should do that.

Drink more beer, that is.

"ill have to watch to see its inevitable demise."

Cheerleader for people getting hurt or killed. How classy.

[vadawg]

31. yup as i said ill have to watch and see its inevitable demise, cause im betting its going to come

a cropper if it tries to do anything other than stand off from the whaling ships...

[flvegan]

33. Keep cheering for the deaths of protesters.

No, bet on it. So, so, so classy. Seriously, freerepublic is just a few keyboard strikes away. Consider it.

[vadawg]

34. not protesters, future darwin award winners is the correct term

[flvegan]

36. Which you would appear to applaud.

Like I said, freerepublic is just a few keystrokes away.

[vadawg]

37. and like i said if they are dumb enough to do the dumb shit they do and put it on camera for us to

watch then who are we not to give them the inevitable darwin award when the time comes nigh...

[flvegan]

38. Hey, you're the one looking forward to people being killed.

I don't really care to know why some dumb fucking douchebag wishes such a thing on people.

[vadawg]

39. hey they are the ones putting themselves inline for the darwin award

if it makes you feel better ill email them telling them to stop it and explaining to them the dumb shit they do, then ill sit back and wait for the inevitable.... cant ask for fairer than that can you....

[flvegan]

42. Nah.

As a vegan, I can't have anything to do with causing harm or wishing harm upon any living being. So, I can't be like you nor ask you to do anything about your wish for people to be killed. It's shameful, though, wishing for people to die.

[Blue-Jay]

43. Are you two girls finished yet?

[vadawg]

46. rofl, nope not until a spurious reference to jaws is made.... :)

[flvegan]

47. No, but

you might recognize that if you knew how to "finish" with a girl to begin with.

Went there.

[vadawg]

48. fucking applause, well played....

[Blue-Jay]

58. Do I know how to bring people together or what?

:rofl:

[vadawg]

45. not really shameful, its all a matter of categorizing them

theres people who are gonna kill themselves no matter what, those you can stop, those you dont want to stop and those that really should be encouraged... i see these guys as the first group, going by their seamship skills they are eventually gonna meet a briny fate....

[Cetacea]

51. Darwin? Somebody mention Darwin?

Human/dolphin comparison.

Until we demonstrate that we can survive fifty million years in our current form we are the inferior species and murdering dolphins and whales should be considered genocide.

[vadawg]

52. mmmmm 50 million years and they still havent mastered the toaster oven

explain that one....

[Cetacea]

53. They don't need stupid shit in the ocean. Technology doesn't equal intelligence.

Or moral superiority, either. Besides they have technologies in their bodies that we can only envy, including natural ultrasound.

Try again.

[vadawg]

54. sorry but your inability to grasp the importance of toasted bread products

and the whales inability to produce such products shows a sever lack of understanding in the tree of life... without toasted bread products we are just the same as the fish in the ocean...

[Cetacea]

55. lol nt.

[vadawg]

56. ;) n/t

[Merchant Marine]

30. Not to cheer the whalers...

But international law is pretty explicit on what stunts you can and cannot pull with a vessel on the high seas. The collision regulations are usually well enforced when dealing with commercial vessels, but I doubt any regulatory body wants the hassle of dealing with Watson.

As a professional mariner I can't stand to watch the show. The level of training held by the "officers" is bad enough- Watson evades international safety and training regulations by registering his ship as a "pleasure yacht". The Irwin doesn't have any of the lifesaving gear or equipment needed for arctic waters- minimum for liferaft capacity is 2x the crew and 1 "gumby" immersion suit for every person. Its a miracle Watson hasn't gotten someone killed yet- the accounts I've read say the Irwin is poorly maintained and should have been scrapped years ago.

You can see the lack of safety training on deck- they send RHIBs out without radios or full fuel tanks, and flipped a RHIB while they were deploying it during the first season. Its just a bad show of seamanship.

[vadawg]

32. ive always had 3X liferaft capacity and 2X survival suits onboard in the south atlantic

but i think the whole thing is a TV show, and like all the reality TV they stage stuff for the cameras, but your right when i have seen it the seamanship stinks...

[flvegan]

35. You do realize you're watching a tv show, right?

They're going to...you know, showcase shit like that right? Ratings and all.

[Merchant Marine]

59. I know,

But the sort of fuckups that happen regularly on the Irwin are the kinds of thing that would get a professional mariner fired at the next port. Its just embarrassing for them.

[underseasurveyor]

40. But their hearts are in the right place

But I have to wonder if there isn't maybe, just maybe a tiny bit of truth to your sentiment.

I love the ocean and I ADORE whales n dolphins et.al. My boyfriend is a hands on in-the-field-working marine biologist and back in the 80's (long before we met unfortunately) he started the Whale Rescue Unit here in Southern California and he knew Paul way back then too. Well without going into a whole long story let's just say that some personalities and/or egos being larger or perhaps one person just having a more radical side to him compared to the other, suddenly my boyfriend found himself, shall we say, not so included or involved with the foundation any longer and that foundation morphed out of my BF control. Anyway despite this history between my BF and Paul and one of Pauls buddies whose name escapes me at the moment, I told my sweetheart that as far as I'm concerned anyone that rescues whales is a superhero to me. So of course that includes him but also Paul Watson even if Pauls tactics may seem too radical or for naught to many. Every whale life saved is a victory.

What's really cool is we have pictures on our wall taken by Bob Talbot (marine wildlife photographer) of my BF actually on top of this huge Gray Whale cutting nets off of him. Saved him too. Very cool photos. He's my ultra Superhero:loveya:

So yeah I'm doing well tonight thank you... and you? Playing lion tamer tonight:evilgrin:

[vadawg]

41. lol nah quiet night, just doing paperwork and working some stuff

had a busy couple of days so now its catch up time over the weekend.

[depakid]

17. Earthrace has circled the globe- and gone halfway round with one tank of fuel

You might want to learn more about it before applying conventional wisdom.

There's a cool thread on point here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x199889

[underseasurveyor]

44. THAT is very.... no.. beyond too cool

Thanks for the link to that thread:thumbsup:

[flvegan]

19. You should read up on the vessel and what they've done to it

[Luminous Animal]

12. I love the graffiti!

[NBachers]

49. Here's another one

[NBachers]

50. Here's another one

[ddeclue]

57. Would be better to make a fake whale to fool them into hunting it.

:rofl: