Whaling Standoff on the High Seas
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/01/07
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Anti-whalers vow “no surrender” as superboat sinks
Agence France-Presse
01/07/10
Defiant anti-whaling activists on Friday vowed to fight on after their high-tech superboat sank in Antarctic seas following a collision with a Japanese ship. Peter Hammarstedt, first officer of the Sea Shepherd group’s ‘Bob Barker’ ship, said the celebrated ‘Ady Gil’ was abandoned in the Southern Ocean after a tow line snapped. … Footage of the incident showed the ‘Shonan Maru 2′ ploughing across the New Zealand-registered Ady Gil’s bow and firing water cannon while its crew dived for safety...
http://tinyurl.com/yc52jc7
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Whale Wars: Sea Shepherd Lodges Piracy Charge Against Japanese Whalers
Dan Murphy, The Christian Science Monitor: "Paul Watson and his Sea Shepherd Conservation Society allege piracy following the collision between the antiwhaling ship Ady Gil and Japan's Shonan Maru Number 2 earlier this week."
http://www.truthout.org/109108Whale-wars
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=whales
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Anti-whalers vow “no surrender” as superboat sinks
Agence France-Presse
01/07/10
Defiant anti-whaling activists on Friday vowed to fight on after their high-tech superboat sank in Antarctic seas following a collision with a Japanese ship. Peter Hammarstedt, first officer of the Sea Shepherd group’s ‘Bob Barker’ ship, said the celebrated ‘Ady Gil’ was abandoned in the Southern Ocean after a tow line snapped. … Footage of the incident showed the ‘Shonan Maru 2′ ploughing across the New Zealand-registered Ady Gil’s bow and firing water cannon while its crew dived for safety...
http://tinyurl.com/yc52jc7
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Whale Wars: Sea Shepherd Lodges Piracy Charge Against Japanese Whalers
Dan Murphy, The Christian Science Monitor: "Paul Watson and his Sea Shepherd Conservation Society allege piracy following the collision between the antiwhaling ship Ady Gil and Japan's Shonan Maru Number 2 earlier this week."
http://www.truthout.org/109108Whale-wars
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=whales
rudkla - 8. Jan, 10:06
