This from the Greenpeace weblog:
http://weblog.greenpeace.org/oceandefenders/archive/2006/02/from_behind_the.html

It was for a specific reason I bade you consider GPAS2 01'24". That was the instant the still photograph was taken, and subsequently released by ICR; as evidence of two vessels in close proximity.
The two frame-grabs from GPAS1, and GPAS2, have Arctic Sunrise pointed at the camera. It goes to optical theory, but it is only possible to make an estimate of the included-angle between two objects when one is parallel to a side of a rectilinear projection.
Also, the wider the acceptance-angle of the taking lens, the greater is the visual distortion away from the optical axis. All important here.

01'25": Contact is audible.
01'27": Note it is the mainstay which snags the fender of Nisshin Maru. This accords with Greenpeace video.
01'28": Camera drops momentarily, showing lots of auto focus.
01'30": Arctic Sunrise has rolled to starboard
01'31": Glimpse of "cloud"
01'34": Arctic Sunrise rolls to port.
01'36": Note the persistent "artifact",the colour on deck.
01'43": Audible! Second contact?
01'49": Arctic Sunrise rounds the stern of Nisshin Maru.
01'50": Figure crosses to rail, obscuring colour.
01'51": Discontinuity in time-line due to edit at this point.
....to be continued....

...ICR video GPAS2 (from another angle) continued....

01'51": The camera crosses to port side and gives just a glimpse of Arctic Sunrise and zodiac(TM) far astern. There is a lot of diesel exhaust out there, but there is no mistaking the "cloud". Arctic Sunrise has slewed some 90 degrees since contact was made.

I use the sound watermark to estimate 13.75 seconds are missing from the time-line because of the edit.

From the start of GPAS2, up to first contact, one minute twenty five seconds (01'25") have elapsed, according to the ICR time-line.
The two edits I have identified in GPAS2, at 00'35", and 01'10", together add about 26 seconds, so the actual elapsed time to first contact is one minute fifty one seconds. (01'51")

Having regard to the relative positions of Arctic-Sunrise and Nisshin-Maru at the start of the recorded evidence; a period of almost two minutes passes before contact; and after just another 22-23 seconds, Arctic-Sunrise passes behind the stern of Nisshin-Maru.

This begins to look like an old fish-tale, or is it a fish-tail!
.....to be continued.....

Some reflections on the ICR videos GPAS1 and GPAS2.

Glen Inwood,a spokesperson for ICR, was interviewed by Michael Duffy, on Counterpoint, January 23 (Radio National). He said that ",the Nisshin Maru blew the five warning signals as was required...etc"
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/counterpoint/stories/s1553014.htm

There is no record of this on GPAS2 other than at (GPAS2: 00'25"). Arctic-Sunrise is heard at (GPAS2 00'19") to begin the first of four blasts of her horn, and is drowned out by the Nisshin-Maru's horn at 00'25". This would suggest the existence of another edit point, leading to revision of the time-line.
I'm also intrigued by the appearance in GPAS1, of what looks like very disturbed water at the stern of Nisshin-Maru. I do not know whether Nisshin-Maru has bow and stern thrusters, but I note that the wake visible in GPAS1. disappears after Arctic-Sunrise has made contact. No, it isn't just water spray.
....to be continued....

Clink, you're over-complicating a very simple issue. I assume this is intentional. It didn't seem to me that the Japanese had edited their video, but if they have, so what? Greenpeace have certainly edited theirs, but all the videos concur on one thing - Greenpeace rammed the other vessel. Get over it!

Graham,I'll next be considering a page which was until a week ago, heading up the ICR home page.
In the interests of a dissemination of ideas, I'd appreciate a mirror of the page:
"Greenpeace should release UNEDITED footage of joint actions with Sea Shepherd"
One Jon Sumby presented an analysis of this particular page at:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/po0601/s00035.htm
Sumby reviewed the "interpretation" of events given by the ICR; of the actions of Sea Shepherd.
I am concerned more about the images SSGP1, and SSGP2, provided by the ICR in support of their stance.

SSGP1 is an image attributed to SSCS, which shows Farley Mowatt heading for the whaling fleet, and is still with quite a way to go. The circled area is indicative only of the direction Farly Mowatt is headed. Oriental Bluebird and Nisshin-Maru are indistinguishable; either along-side or passing.
SSGP2 is also attributed to SSCS, and shows Farley Mowatt to be much closer, and depicts, to my mind, relative positions some time after the collision. The Esperanza is not visible, and must lie beyond Oriental Bluebird. Nisshin-Maru has performed quite a manoeuvre to be where she is now!
Another image, SSGP3(?) shows Nisshin-Maru very much marked by collision, contrary to the sequence of events put out by ICR.
Graham, this rather pedestrian series of posts demonstrates I hope, the wealth of information to be had, by examining the evidence without prejudice.
...to be continued....

The Jon Sumby article is here:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0601/S00035.htm

or here:
http://tinyurl.com/jolxx

...to be continued...