Who Is Ady Gil? Daily News Digs Deeper
Valley Businessman Ady Gil
As blogged earlier today, an anti-whaling boat paid for with donations made by “Woodland Hills resident” Ady Gil was wrecked in a confrontation in the waters off of Antarctica in the last day or so. So who is Ady Gil? And why is his name so weird? We may never know the answer to the latter, but as to the former the Daily News writes:
The sleek, high-tech powerboat whose dramatic collision with a Japanese whaler in icy seas dominated news broadcasts Wednesday carried the name of an eco-friendly Woodland Hills man.
Ady Gil, who owns an audio- visual company and builds television studios, said he received numerous e-mails Wednesday morning alerting him that his namesake was involved in an international incident in Antarctic waters.
Photographs show that the bow had been sliced just before his name.
“We were lucky no one was severely injured,” said Gil, who donated $1 million to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which named the black trimaran – a three hulled craft – after Gil.
“I loved this boat. It was dear to me and it was there for a purpose,” he said. “We can’t continue using it, but maybe it will bring more awareness to the cause.”
Please vist the Daily News site to read the rest of this meaty article about the incident and Ady Gil himself.
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Ady Gil is actually quite a common name in Israel, which is the country of nationality of this weird looking dude. Very appropriately “ady” means present in Hebrew and “gil” means joy or happiness.
I don’t think he’s weird looking. I think he’s very attractive and on top of that he has apparently got a very generous heart of gold!
I think what happened to the ship was done with no consern of human life, i think something should have been done about what had happened and the whaler ship captain should have had charges filed against him/her.