Sea Shepards collision with Jap ship

The Honorable Japanese vessel sliced off the bow of some boat that looked like it belonged to Batman. Everybody is safe and all was caught on video…

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“Japs” is so WWII. Japanese is more PC. If you want to be PC. It’s up to you.

Thanks Doug, you beat me to the punch on that.

Considering it is 2010, let’s stick with ‘Japanese’.

PC??always thought Japanese is the “round eye” vulgarization of Nipponese!!

The Utube video was outstanding-didn’t the narrator at one point say “NOT GOOD” ?
Question #2- who is at fault in this debacle ?

[quote=steelbeach;24036]The Utube video was outstanding-didn’t the narrator at one point say “NOT GOOD” ?
Question #2- who is at fault in this debacle ?[/quote]

Some discussion of this can be found here:

//youtu.be/Bbuq0YEIPNU

Looks like the Japanese ship was turning to starboard as they hit the Sea Shephard boat, Who knows if they were in the middle of a turn when the Ady Gil decided to stop or what happened before the video…

After living in Japan for several years, let me leave you with this.

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