Post by Robert James on Feb 5, 2011 14:58:55 GMT -5
Heraldsun Post February 05, 2011 10:45PM
A Japanese whaling vessel is in distress in the Southern Ocean following a skirmish with conservation activists.
Both sides traded accusations following Friday's incident about 3700km southeast of New Zealand in the Ross Sea.
Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research says its harpoon vessel, Yushin Maru 3 (YS3,) was attacked by the Gojira and the Bob Barker from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
The Sea Shepherd fleet and their zodiac boats deployed wire ropes known as "propeller foulers" which disabled the YS3 about 11.10am (AEDT), the Institute said in a press release.
The Society did not claim responsibility for any disabling and said it was the YS3 that was chasing them and turned into the Gojira in an attempt ram the vessel.
"We just narrowly avoided being cut in half," Captain Locky MacLean of the Gojira was quoted as saying on the Society's website.
Read more via this link
www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/clash-with-sea-shepherd-boat-leaves-whaling-vessel-distressed/story-e6frf7lf-1226000785330
A Japanese whaling vessel is in distress in the Southern Ocean following a skirmish with conservation activists.
Both sides traded accusations following Friday's incident about 3700km southeast of New Zealand in the Ross Sea.
Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research says its harpoon vessel, Yushin Maru 3 (YS3,) was attacked by the Gojira and the Bob Barker from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
The Sea Shepherd fleet and their zodiac boats deployed wire ropes known as "propeller foulers" which disabled the YS3 about 11.10am (AEDT), the Institute said in a press release.
The Society did not claim responsibility for any disabling and said it was the YS3 that was chasing them and turned into the Gojira in an attempt ram the vessel.
"We just narrowly avoided being cut in half," Captain Locky MacLean of the Gojira was quoted as saying on the Society's website.
Read more via this link
www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/clash-with-sea-shepherd-boat-leaves-whaling-vessel-distressed/story-e6frf7lf-1226000785330