For those not familiar with the show; Whale Wars debuted on Animal Planet HD in 2007 and features disgraced former Greenpeace board member Paul Watson and a crew of useful idiots and cranks who play chicken with Japanese whaling vessels. Though it does bring attention to illegal Japanese whaling, the show is little more than Watson coaxing his loyal peons into risking their lives and those of the whalers for cheap political stunts that wind up making the whalers look like the good guys.
Up till now the show was little more than fodder for South Park, however, now it looks like they've upped the ante:
Here's the result:
A friend familiar with the Ady Gil tells me it had been involved in a similar collision in 2000 during a race around the world, which probably is why the people behind Whale Wars aquired it and then rammed it into the side of a Japanese whaler; the free publicity. At any rate, here's what a fine piece of maritime design looks like before reality T.V. gets a hold of it:
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