The Ady Gil (formerly the vessel 'Earthrace' that broke the global circumnavigation speed record in June 2008) was sunk after she was rammed by the Japanese whaling ship, Shonan Maru 2 in January 2010, whilst taking part in the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's 'Operation Waltzing Matilda' in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Ady Gil's skipper, Pete Bethune, later boarded the Shonan Maru in an attempt to serve a citizen's arrest warrant on the captain. He also gave the captain an invoice for the replacement money - 3.5 million dollars, which he never got. He was held on board, and returned to Japan to face trial for a variety of spurious charges. He has been sentenced to a 2 year sentence suspended for 5 years on July 7th, 2010. He was charged with trespassing, property damage, assault, illegal possession of a knife, and interfering with business. He will be serving this in 2015.
you cannot reverse the boat from going off the waterfall :)
Currently, they have got 5 main vessels which are: MY Steve Irwin, MY Bob Barker, MY Sam Simon, MY Jairo Mora Sandoval, MV Brigette Bardot. Along with their fleet, the acculamte numerouse of donated boats from other people and celebrities along with having small water boats. In the past, they have had 9 main vessels which included first 2 Sea Shepherd boats, Farley Mowat and the Ady Gil. The cause of some of these boats departure are because of retirement due to colissions like the Ady Gil which had to be left to sunk after colliding with a Japanese harpoon vessel.
Gil Newsom is 6' 2".
the main ship is - the Steve Irwin the second vessel is - the bob barker the third vessel is called the gojira (Japanese for Godzilla) but recently changed to the bridgitte bardot. that vessel follows a similar design to the previous ady gil which was sunk by the nisshin maru #2 of the Japanese whaling fleet.
Gil Sanabria is 5' 6 1/2".
Gil Deeble is 6' 1 1/2".
Gil Guemes is 5' 9 1/2".
Elijah Gil is 5' 11 1/2".
Saras Gil is 5' 7 1/2".
Gil Barreto was born on October 2, 1921.
Gil Hodges died on April 2, 1972 at the age of 47.