AFP check damage on whaling protest ship (Sea Shepherd ship Robert Hunter)

February 17, 2007

"She was a strange sight among the seamen on the deck of a Japanese whale-spotting ship in the Antarctic: a woman with a video camera. Over the hour or two that her ship was under attack from Sea Shepherd, the young woman raced around the deck recording the assault.

While the chaser ships scattered, his vessels Farley Mowat and Robert Hunter circled for an attack. Robert Hunter came alongside and activists tossed smoke bombs and bottles containing malodorous butyric acid aboard, allegedly slightly injuring two crewmen.

A heavy line was trailed across the Nisshin Maru's bows in an attempt to entangle its propeller, and two activists in a dinghy tried to dump a net into the same place. Only a mishap for these activists, who went missing when their dinghy cracked against the side of the Nisshin Maru, ended the action.

The video taken by the woman on Kaiko Maru shows Robert Hunter's streaming wake widening in a turn to the right that brings it in towards the Japanese ship. There is a clash of metal, and the Sea Shepherd ship abruptly halts, burying its bow in a lump of pack ice."

...did the ramming? WTF? :wtf: How difficult is that?

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