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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stewart J." data-source="post: 1691894" data-attributes="member: 4887">Hi Colin, viewed it several times looking at horizon (not Boat) impression given is movement suggesting Japanese ship is turning to starboard ie deliberately ramming and in later shots looking aft from the whaler its wake appears off to portside again suggesting a course alteration. Would be interestng to see further footage from different viewpoints.Whatever, its apparent whaler seems to have made no attempt at any avoidance action and does not appear to slow down to offer assistance both of which if correct are criminal acts. Suspect we have a diplomatic incident in the making and the Japanese government needs to be thinking of damage limitation instead of its present stand which is in my opinion will only alienate it.As a mariner I'm appalled at the actions of the whaler, why didn't it just stop or reduce speed and await developments, a large steel hulled vessel with limited manoeuvrability against a tiny carbon fibre one is no contest.I feel sure there will be a full on marine accident investigation over this one, that no-one was injured or worse is nothing short of miraculous.Stewart</blockquote>