Design brief for anti-whaling vessel?

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  1. TeddyDiver
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  2. Tevens
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    so that boat was designed but not for the purpose of anti-whaling?
     
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    Depends on how far you want to go

    I would say the design depends on what you intend to do and how much money you want to spend on it.

    If you want to sink whaling ships I would think an attack submarine would be the ultimate ship, if you also want to minimize pollution a nuclear sub would probably be the way to go but those are hard to come by.

    Any ship comparable in size to the whaling ships that can match their speed is going to enable you to play a game of chicken with them, anything with a shorter waterline isn't going to match their speed unless it's a planing boat which means it won't be suitable for offshore work and quite possibly put everyone on-board in danger.

    Larger ships and planing boats are both going to eat fuel at alarming rates, I don't think there is any viable option for a green alternative if you want range, speed or size.

    Speed is important if you want to be able to avoid authorities where you operate, I don' think it's otherwise required, whaling boats are more about stealth than speed and for this reason many have steam engines and hull shapes that minimize noise.

    If you absolutely feel the need to thwart whaling boats out on the water I suggest a sonic system to alert/scare off the whales, as far as I know that's not illegal anywhere.

    If you want to stop whaling without hurting people or breaking the law I suggest you try a more constructive approach, I suggest using political pressure to have laws changed. I know it's not as glamorous as a RIB guzzling down 80l per hour but I find that breaking laws isn't a particularly good strategy for having other laws changed.

    (edited to correct thinking error)
     
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    As far as Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd effort is concerned, the real purpose of everything they do is PUBLICITY. Smile for the camera, boys and girls. How many whales have these hollywood bozos really saved?
     
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    I would think a submarine with a full compliment of torpedoes would be best suited for this task.

    Any patrol craft with a 5" deck gun would also seem well suited.
     
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    I thought we had lost him, Tevens, by now but he is still here?
    Do you get anything out of this?
    Do you have money to build an operate a large, heavy, fast, armed boat?
    Why not just sink the whalers by night at the harbor as French agents would do?
     
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    ah hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha:p:p:p
     
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    It sounds like another form of piracy to me.
     
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    if there were 6 billion whales i wouldn't mind whaling but there are so few of them and they are such noble creatures

    besides they bring very little economic benefit to any country

    the days when the oil was needed for illumination is long gone
     
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    Think of using whale oil as fuel , it would be green, and you would have a good supply .
     
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    Yes, it is slowly renewable, just like fossil fuels!:rolleyes:
     

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    the romans hunted lots of animals to extinction just so they could kill them in circuses.

    i see whaling in a similar way, as a waste
     
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