Anti-whaling ship hits harpoon boat
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February 7, 2010, Sunday
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THE anti-whaling ship the Bob Barker and a Japanese harpoon boat collided in icy waters off Antarctica yesterday - the second major clash this year in increasingly aggressive confrontations between the two sides.
No one was reportedly injured in the latest strike. The US-based activist group Sea Shepherd, which sends vessels to confront the Japanese fleet each year, said a small hole was torn in the hull of its ship. It was above the water line and the vessel was not in danger.
Sea Shepherd founder Captain Paul Watson said by satellite telephone that the Japanese ship rammed the Bob Barker - named after the US game show host who donated millions to buy it for Sea Shepherd - as it blocked the slip way of the Japanese fleet's factory ship.
Japanese Fisheries Agency official Takashi Mori said staff were trying to confirm details of a reported clash.
Yesterday's collision was the second this year between a Sea Shepherd boat and the Japanese fleet. Sea Shepherd and the whalers have faced off in Antarctic waters for the past few years over Japan's annual whale hunt, with each side accusing the other of acting in increasingly dangerous ways.
No one was reportedly injured in the latest strike. The US-based activist group Sea Shepherd, which sends vessels to confront the Japanese fleet each year, said a small hole was torn in the hull of its ship. It was above the water line and the vessel was not in danger.
Sea Shepherd founder Captain Paul Watson said by satellite telephone that the Japanese ship rammed the Bob Barker - named after the US game show host who donated millions to buy it for Sea Shepherd - as it blocked the slip way of the Japanese fleet's factory ship.
Japanese Fisheries Agency official Takashi Mori said staff were trying to confirm details of a reported clash.
Yesterday's collision was the second this year between a Sea Shepherd boat and the Japanese fleet. Sea Shepherd and the whalers have faced off in Antarctic waters for the past few years over Japan's annual whale hunt, with each side accusing the other of acting in increasingly dangerous ways.
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