What were the Sea Shepherds thinking?

I don't get it. The Sea Shepherds get this incredibly fast "Batboat" called the Ady Gil, and just a few weeks (or is it just days) into their anti-whaling efforts, they stick the nose of the thing in front of one of the harpoon ships and get it sheared off. Dumb! This was going to be a weapon (and a lot of fun to watch on "Whale Wars").

The video shows that they did push in front of the Japanese ship. They weren't steered into. So they either did it deliberately or were really, really stupid. First rule of defensive warfare; save your best guns for when you really need them.

So now I guess it's back to following the Japanese ships and crying when they harpoon a whale.

Just plain dumb.

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