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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Colin" data-source="post: 1691907" data-attributes="member: 97">Stewart.  I will look again but what you describe could well have been what happened.  There will be other videos as both sides claim to have the incident on film.  Other angles will be of interest and may show more light on what happened.Irrespective of the rights and wrongs of the whaling, I agree with you that this was a very dangerous incident for lots of reasons, not least the remoteness of the location, the cold waters etc etc.  It will be fascinating to see what develops out of this and in this world of litigation there could be a lot of money and reputations involved.Edit - difficult to judge the apparent movement of the horizon given the forward movement of the Japanese ship but when the camera swings aft just after the collision, the wake of the the Japanese ship curls away to the right as you look at it which means that this ship had been turning to port almost certainly before the collision.  It will be interesting to see what the accident investigators make of this as they will see much more than a layman like myself especially from other videos which will undoubtedly come to light.</blockquote>