Then I could see the harpoon ships using the orange liferafts from the Steve Irwin for harpoon target practice.:D:D
Watson might have aaquired a third ship to attack with. Anyone know how to check on this?
Google “earth racer” or “earth force”. “Capt” Fat-son supposedly acquired this high speed racing vessel.
The SWO they have aboard also may not have the all the Navy service she claims to have. There’s question at to when she really attended the Naval Academy. Some interviews she has given has conflicting dates on when she attended, some say she was commisioned in 2002, others say 2006. If she was commisioned in 2006, that would raise questions of why she left the Navy after only 3 years, when she would have been required to serve 6 years as an Annapolis grad.
I remember when she first appeared on the show and said something about being a SWO for 6 years. Never heard anything about when she graduated though.
[QUOTE=MikeE1849;16617]Watson might have aaquired a third ship to attack with. Anyone know how to check on this?[/QUOTE]
the only thing listed on equasis is the irwin.
LA Times had an article about it.
[quote=da second;17340]Google “earth racer” or “earth force”. “Capt” Fat-son supposedly acquired this high speed racing vessel.
The SWO they have aboard also may not have the all the Navy service she claims to have. There’s question at to when she really attended the Naval Academy. Some interviews she has given has conflicting dates on when she attended, some say she was commisioned in 2002, others say 2006. If she was commisioned in 2006, that would raise questions of why she left the Navy after only 3 years, when she would have been required to serve 6 years as an Annapolis grad.[/quote]
I heard about the Earthrace, but he also said something one time about a second ship along with the ER.
and I don’t think he purchased the Earthrace. But the power will be out there helping him
Thats interesting, would love to know more about the female SWO and her Navy service.
From wikipedia:
Some names from crew list, and their training background:
Paul Watson, Captain, Founder of Seashpeherd society (!?)
Jane Taylor, navigation officer, Former US navy Lieutenant,
Chris Aultman, Recon Helicopter Pilot, Former US Marine Corp helicopter pilot
Laurens de Groot, deckhand, former dutch police officer
Don Kehoe Junior, former police officer
Jane Taylor interview and short bio on this page. (Scroll down)
It seems she is [B]PETA’s Sexiest Vegetarian Naval Woman[/B]!
She’s not that sexy to me, but it’s nothing a trip to Sizzlers or Popeye’s wouldn’t fix.
How about we send t hem a bunch of black faxes with TORA TORA TORA all in white letters to their ships once tey leave port
Correct me if I am wrong. But anytime you place a person on a vessel offshore without the masters or countries consent that is piracy and they can take physical and or legal action against those boarding.
Its not piracy, but it could be:
Trespassing,
or, at sea called, stowaways.
Physical and legal action by the boarded vsls master, crew or owner - YES.
- Piracy is armed attack on other country vessel with intent to steal property, hijack the vsl, etc…with obvious economical motive.
- Therorism is armed attack with intent to cause damage, injuries or death. Without intent to steal the property. The motive is political or religious.
- Then you have smuggling of people - those are stowaways which is the term for shipboard trespassers.
Now when I was watching the Steve Irwin crew boarding the Jap vessel - I could not pin on them anything but being stowaways - for which those guys will be held by the crew, and later repatriated home by the owner of boarded vessel. The expense goes again on poor japanese owner.
They actualy invented something that international law has not defined yet.
Its not piracy - no stealing / no weapons / no economic motive.
Its not real therorism - (still) no killing / no weapons / no total destruction / Motve is not political or religious.
If we are going to define in some legal way what they are doing, I would say:
- causing the damage to other vsl by wilfull act (collision)
- bringing their own crew in imminent danger by specific order of their captain by lowering the inflatable boat while underway and subsequent capsizing with people overboard.
- bringing other vsl in imminent danger by intangling the stern line in other vsl prop, by specific order of their captain which is willfull act to cause damage.
- total diregard and breaking of the colregs
- other similar acts… which you may have seen
For all above things: they are in my view reponsible to their flag state, on their acts as described , and anyhow its very hard to pin on them “some international crime” which piracy or therorism would be.
Anyway, the thing will get worse for them once when somebody gets killed.
Then the flag state is going to react seriously, and sombedy will have to face judge on manslaughter charges.
At this point, in my view, they are in some legal gap which they exploit well.
On the other hand: take a look at real pirates in Somalia. They do the real staff. The international Navy is there (with all IMO legal support), and good budget - and they are not able to stop them.
What do you expect to be done with those boneheads?
In my opinion - nothing, as long as somebody doesnt get killed.
If they manage to kill somebody of their own crew: a manslaughter
If they manage to kill some of the jap crew: they are getting an international therrorist tag. (see definiton above, point 2)
Till then, we can only watch the show.
I find it shameful and embarrassing that the Sea Shepard crew (from what I saw in the video) reminds me of my line of work.