SSS Bob Barker disrupted Japanese whale poachers from illegally refueling

And....nobody can prove they're incorrect. And they were legally refuelling. They should have sunk the Barker and said Whoops.

i know whaling is considered illegal by the UN, but to them, it's just normal, why i said debatable, but it's something that shouldn't be done, but like a lot of things, it still happens

Its not debatable. It is illegal to whale in international waters, simple as that. And as for sinking the Barker, wow, so they so risk killing hundred of crew because they are preventing them from continuing their illegal trade. You definitely sound like you have a bright future ahead of you in any organized crime syndicate. But guess what, that exactly what they tried to do, despite the Barker not trying to ram them, or make any contact, simply getting in the way. The whaler repeated rammed them. Not that it did any good. Btw, the Bob Barker's sister ship is the Steve Irwin, which they also targeted for sinking and failed at.

No it's not. It's not illegal to whale in international waters if your sovereign does not consider itself bound by laws which would restrict your doing so. Simple as that.

@celticrose While I abhor the idea of whale hunting, if you're in international waters and trying to block another ship from refueling, then you're actually in violation of the law because you're putting the other crew at risk. Leave the patroling to the military, not to the civvies.

Unfortunately there's not enough military to do that patrolling. And if civvies don't do something soon we are going to be looking at a world without a lot species. Which laws here have precedent? Why are the refueling more important than stopping the whaling? The whaler had enough fuel to get home, just not to continue hunting, which was the point. They made it back safe, despite ramming the Barker, and I believe the Steve Irwin.