Hmm. the link to Zodiac Marine fell over. This might be more acceptable:
http://www.police.govt.nz/operation/wharf/#top

Isn't it a bugger. Every time I re-view the videos there's something there I hadn't seen before. Last night looking at the Greenpeace offering: at the Esperanza footage sandwiched between the Arctic Sunrise recording, and the talking heads; right at the end of the clip after the camera drifts astern and picks out the Zodiac(TM) briefly, there is a clear indication of exhaust smoke from the Nisshin Maru. It is lower than the plume from Arctic Sunrise. Small things.

More about the ICR video GPAS1. At 00'42", it captures two successive cycles of the WARNING!! announcement as it was broadcast over the P.A. of Nisshin Maru. My stopwatch says it repeats at 18.2second intervals. It is the one feature common to both ICR and Greenpeace video footage. I will use it as a yardstick when I now consider GPAS2, the ICR video(from another angle).

GPAS2 (01'52") has three edit points (jump cuts) at 00'35", 01'10", and 01'51". There may be an edit at 00'17", but I can't verify it. The audio glitch says there is. In just three frames the camera jumps from the bow of Oriental Bluebird, to the foremast of Nisshin-Maru, and to the bow of Arctic Sunrise.(Optical image stablilizer getting out of whack?) Please note the figure evident at the bow of A.S.

The camera position for the opening sequence of GPAS2 is on the port bridge-deck rail. By the close of the first 34 second sequence, it provides a wide angle view which establishes the position of A.S. somewhere level with the bow of N.M. The distant Esperanza is an adequate reference to gain some idea of relative speeds. Nisshin Maru is moving slowly, as too is Arctic Sunrise.
It is at this time 00'29", that the gate at the corner of the paddock is opening on to greener fields. The last couple of frames before the 00'35" cut, suggest to me the camera is being turned off, viz.it is a completed record.
........To be continued........

The Greenpeace video, downloadable from here:
http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/the-expedition/news/whalers-ram-ship-111
displays a caption advising of a one month time-limit for access. That time is now. Be aware.

ICR video GPAS2 (from another angle) continued.
At this point (00"35"), I'm faced with the task of proving the existence of something that doesn't exist.That something is the passage of 21.4 seconds of elapsed time. The first sequence, taken from a location on the bridge-deck, port side; is edited ><, at a time 1.5 seconds before the end <>, of a sound cycle. viz.
......BACK OFF!!__1.0"__ ><___1.5"___<>WARNING!!......WARNING!!....

Now, at (00'35"), the second camera above and behind the starboard Bridge rail(atop the JJCJ call-sign banner), takes over the recording, starting on the second ...WARNING!!.....This is the..etc.....

At a minimum, 1.5 seconds plus 1.7 seconds are unaccounted for. The position of Arctic Sunrise immediately before, and after the 00'35" edit beggers/buggers this interpretation. Together with the "constant" of Esperanza in the distance, leads me to believe there is another 18.2 seconds "missing", which makes for 21.4 seconds in total.

I feel like a Coroner called to the scene of Humpty Dumpty's accident: after all the King's horses... etc. have gone.
Hmmm. Exoskeletal remains, Clearly a DNA job. Did he fall, or was he pushed?!
And where Does the Vatican fit in?

ICR Video GPAS2 (from another angle) continued.

00'35" : The camera takes some moments to 'find' Arctic Sunrise, then drops slowly and deliberately to the side of Nisshin-Maru, and back to A.S. over a period of eight seconds. (GPAS1, at 00'02" had a similar establishing shot)
00'38" : Arctic Sunrise sounds four short blasts, and one long blast of her horn, finishing 00'51". Note the figure at the stem of A.S.
00'47" : camera zooms in to 'frame' Arctic Sunrise.
00'51" : The Greenpeace video starts here, twice!
00'56" : Figure moves to port side of bow and leans over side.
01'04" : Camera is panning back to A.S. and cavitation now visible and getting larger.(like a skid mark?)
01'06" : Exhaust plume visible from stack. Esperanza appears very briefly.
01'09" : Bow figure, who has been in bow since the beginning of GPAS2, leaves foredeck and appears, in the last two frames before edit point, as a fugitive shape visible above the last S of "Sunrise".
01'10" : After the edit, the same person is seen bracing against bulkhead wall, some five metres away. ....To be continued.....

ICR Video GPAS2.(from another angle) continued.

This instant, (01'10"), is a critical point in the record of events, and yet ICR has released no footage of some 4.2 seconds of elapsed time. The 'hole' is of 4.2 seconds duration, which I determine from the discontinuity in the sound watermark, and which is validated by the observed vision-glitch across the edit point. An answer to this quandary is to be found by looking at the Greenpeace offering; at (Greenpeace 00'33" to 00'37"). The GPAS2 cameraman is otherwise occupied. Whilst there, note the goings-on at the rail of the bridge. GPAS1 starts at(Greenpeace 00'39").

It would be easy to ascribe an intent on the part of ICR, to compress continuity, which HAS happened. It seems there was no intent; just happenstance.

The impression to be gained from the sequence was another thing altogether. Crap assertions such as Arctic Sunrise "turned hard to port" ; "The video clearly shows...." etc. My first post had Arctic Sunrise maintaining her heading constant, by referencing the Oriental Bluebird which was stationary.

There are other complications happening here. We're looking at a monitor screen which is flat. Projected on to the screen is a rectilinear-projection of a three-dimensional world.

http://slash72.club.fr/gurl/MODES/PROJECTION/en_prefecture_rectiligne.htm

also, http://www.research.ibm.com/dx/proceedings/cart/cart.htm

....To be continued.....

That first link fell over, so here is a tinyurl.com version:

http://tinyurl.com/9k6mu

A brilliant site!

ICR video GPAS2 (from another angle) continued.

I should include in the time-line for GPAS2: at the same instant the bow figure is visible above 'ise' of Sunrise,at (GPAS2 01'09"), the cameraman onboard Arctic Sunrise reaches for the rail. This corresponds to (Greenpeace 00'30"), when he is reacting to the slowing down of A.S. He is heard to utter "this is gonna hurt!"

00'17": At this time, Arctic Sunrise is pointed directly at the camera. Note the angle between Arctic Sunrise, and the side of Nisshin-Maru. Save this frame and put it with the similar frame from GPAS1. The water behaviour around the bow of A.S. is most evident here.

01'24" Looks really bad don't it! Go back to the frame-grabs from this video (00'17"), and from (GPAS1 00'02"). Compare these with the still image provided by the ICR on it's site,,,
Well I was going to provide a link to ICR, and a page entitled "Greenpeace should release UNEDITED footage of Joint Actions with Sea Shepherd", but it's gone. I hope you saved it!! The image of impending collision remains and is under "photos".
For now, I ask just where is the evidence that Arctic Sunrise turned "hard to port" in order to ram Nisshin Maru.
....To be continued...