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- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Newsgroups: talk.environment,sci.environment,sci.energy
- Subject: Re: Notch another one up for the Greennazis
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.172616.8586@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 17:26:16 GMT
- References: <1992Nov9.034442.12361@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <JMC.92Nov8204409@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> <1992Nov9.145946.4373@inel.gov>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Gannett Technologies Group
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- In article <1992Nov9.145946.4373@inel.gov> dpe@inel.gov (Don Palmrose) writes:
- >In article <JMC.92Nov8204409@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>, jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy) writes:
- >>
- >> They tried to get between the plutonium ship and its escort, got
- >> bumped and accused the Japanese of brutality or something
- >> like that. I assume the reporters on Greenpeace boat will tell
- >> the story the Greenpeace way.
- >>
- >> They are better than the terrorists - somewhat.
- >
- >Let's try to remember that their are international rules governing the safe
- >navigation on the open and coastal seas. A ship cannot just go willy-nilly
- >anywhere it wants to travel. Who ever was in charge on each ship must know
- >and understand this. It is something that Greenpeace has convienently over-
- >looked in the past because "their protest is above international law" type of
- >attitude. The end result is if Greenpeace is not careful on how they operate
- >their ships, the Japanese will be well within international law to take them
- >to court for intentional violations of the international rules-of-the-road.
-
- As I understand it, the vessel coming from starboard has the right of
- way, except that ships under sail always have the right of way over
- motor vessels, except that in practice big ships always have the right
- of way over little ships period, because they can't stop or turn quickly.
- If you pull in front of a supertanker, regardless if you think you have
- the right of way or not, you're going to get a free ride on the bow of
- the tanker for at least the ten miles it takes him to stop.
-
- Gary
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