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Bethune plea: Trespassing on whaler | The Japan Times Online A Sea Shepherd activist pleaded guilty Thursday at the start of his Tokyo trial to trespassing onto a Japanese research whaling vessel in the Antarctic Ocean in February but denied trying to hurt a crew member.

If you keep repeating this nonsense, I will keep refuting it. You have no way of knowing what course corrections the whaler captain commanded, and the course deviations shown on video are more likely to be the bow swinging around as normal in heavy seas. If you repeat a lie 1,000 times, it...

Us? Them? Who the hell are you to decide? I presume you are American, by your tone. "Your" record with bison, passenger pigeons and snowy egrets hardly lends itself to being able to hector other sovereign nations. "You" have a history of messing up your own species, why should anyone...

Maybe you could do this very complicated maths, all by yourself - just like I did. Take the annual quote for minke whale catch in the Southern Ocean Divide that by the most recent/accurate/low number you want to choose for the population of minke whales in the Southern Ocean. Then...

Try reading this thread.

On the contrary my dear DCBC, it was exactly the issue that Mr X. and I were discussing. He asserted the whalers were losing money, which I challenged as being unlikely. Further research by us both has led him to believe the whaling expeditions can be profitable. Do try and keep up with the...

It is possible. However, this is the best (most detailed, and most up to date) data series I have seen. While the raw numbers can hide the true picture, they certainly doesn't support the hypothesis that whale meat is being stockpiled. Until we have some accurate information, that thesis must...

And if we're talking about the ineptitude of the Captain - why not mention the Ady Gil skipper who - if you are right - let a vastly slower, vastly less manoeuvrable and vastly slower accelerating boat ram him? Maybe he fell asleep and forgot he was in the Antarctic trying to hassle, disable and...

Thanks for the analysis Mr X. As I suspected, it looks like this will be profitable - even if marginally so. I suspect if Sea Shepherd can decrease the total catch significantly it could tip the expeditions into loss. I seem to remember them making this point last year. For the warehousing -...

I think you're more likely to be able to charge the skipper of the Ady Gil with attempted murder of his five shipmates.

Once again, - you have no idea of the helm commands of the trawler, and you don't have any of the footage from the past 3 hours. How do you know the Ady Gil wasn't constantly this close playing chicken for the past three hours, zooming back and forth and constantly causing the trawler to alter...

You have no way of knowing this - the course deviation may not have been response to helm commands, it might just have have well been the action of ploughing through waves. Don't let the facts stand in the way of your argument though. See above. Don't let the facts stand in the way of your...

Yes, it was an unmanned water cannon that did not change the trajectory the whole incident. You can clearly see this from the video footage. Hence this was not a deliberate act to target a crippled boat. The Ady Gil should never have got close enough to be in range of the canon in the first...

Numerous illegal acts? Laughing out loud. The Ady Gil was the one performing numerous illegal acts, not the SM2. Let's try to keep to the facts please!

It is in most countries. You could also argue the Ady Gil skipper was recklessly endangering his crew, or in your parlance "attempting to murder" them.

I don't think I would.... while I don't doubt you are a good diver, your constant need for self-validation would put me off. Threads like this are attention-seeking and I prefer cool, chilled out dive buddies - not anyone with enough neurosis to post a thread like this.

It's really amusing to see the level of resistance in the DIR community to a clearly superior system.

In your opinion. I have read plenty of other opinions that state the opposite, and from people without an axe to grind. I have to say I find their opinions a lot more credible.

I've dived with a dozen or more dive shops around Japan, and didn't have anything like the problems you've had Antarctic-Adventurer. Most dives have been 45 minutes to an hour, depending on depth/nitrogen loading and conditions (temperature, current etc)... although I have seen poorly skilled...

Apparently? How can you tell from this footage? And how can turning radius be irrelevant when we're considering whether this turn is induced by the helm or the waves?! It would seem to be of direct and importance to me. What investigation? Sure, if there is a proper investigation by an...