@RANGIEBABY As I explained a couple of posts ago, cable TV would not enrich my life enough to offset its expenses.
Wave-throwings do not generate wakes. Boats moving to ram ships, on the other hand, do.
Since Sea Shepherd has, in the past, demonstrated a willingness both to ram whaling ships and make spectacles of themselves, I find it reasonable to suppose that they combined the two this time in order to generate all of this negative publicity.
I might counter that the boat had no business being in the way of the whaler. There are nicer parts of the ocean to have a granola-and-wheat-grass-smoothie party.
Why the close pass? I shall speculate some.
The above video features a shrill alarm. I imagine that it was triggered by the Sea Shepherd people in order to scare off any whales that might be in the area.
Now picture this: You’re at work, trying to finish a project before you go home. And a guy who doesn’t like your company very much barges into your workspace and starts making a nuisance of himself. He disrupts your stuff, he tries to shine a laser into your eyes, and screams obscenities at you the whole time. He even goes out of his way to make you look bad to other people. And no matter how many times you tell him to leave you alone, he won’t.
I don’t know much about you, and I know nothing at all about the skipper of the Shonan Maru. But I do know that if I had a guy constantly harassing me, I’d get very blustery, eventually call the police, or else get somewhat aggressive with the oven cleaner and my roasting spits. That would also likely be my last day at work.
Would my assaulting a now-former potential customer put me in the right? No though I am permitted to defend myself from overzealous shoppers. But a person’s patience can only stretch so thin before it snaps. As it is with meat-roasters, so it is with whalers.