It's perfectly clear to anybody with even a mediocre talent for language that the 'ramming' mentioned in the OP is secondary to the call for a sonic device to repel whales.

Continue to appear dumb, Si modo and Larson, as the desire takes you.


However, that's not to say that I wouldn't applaud any ramming oriented activity on the part of Watson which didn't actually kill any nasty little Jap harpooneers. Given the opportunity I'd help crew his boat.