{"id":13978,"date":"2010-01-06T10:58:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T10:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=5075"},"modified":"2010-01-06T10:58:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T10:58:12","slug":"japanese-whalers-strike-sink-sea-shepherds-2-million-new-boat-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/japanese-whalers-strike-sink-sea-shepherds-2-million-new-boat-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Whalers Sink Sea Shepherd's $2 Million New Boat [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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All six crew on board the Ady Gil, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s high-speed intercepting vessel, are safe, but the fate of the boat is in doubt after a collision with a Japanese harpoon vessel left it disabled off the coast of Antarctica.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anti-whaling activists, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, made famous in the Animal Planet television program, Whale Wars, have requested the Australian Navy send a vessel to their location in the Southern Ocean after the Japanese whaling vessel Shonan Maru 2<\/em> reportedly struck and sunk the radical conservation group’s new $2 million speed boat, the Ady Gil.<\/p>\n

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“It cut eight feet off the front of the vessel,” said Capt. Paul Watson, who was aboard the group’s flagship Steve Irwin, several hundred kilometers away at the time of the collision. “There is a big gaping hole, so it can\u2019t go anywhere or it would fill up with water,” added Watson.<\/p>\n

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Sea Shepherd claims the Ady Gil was trying to get out of the way of the Japanese vessel, while the Japanese have accused the protesters of causing the collision. Jeff Hansen, Australian director of Sea Shepherd, said the Ady Gil had come to a stop in front of the Shonan Maru 2 vessel. [Note: video of the collision<\/a> has now been released by the Institute for Cetacean Research<\/em>].<\/p>\n

“Everyone aboard is safe, we\u2019ve managed to get everyone off and they\u2019re ok. We have it all on film and we\u2019re getting onto all the authorities at the moment,” Hansen told<\/a> the Herald Sun.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Japanese video shows the Ady Gil chasing the Japanese vessel and passing in front of it to release a prop-fouling rope rope. The boat disappears from the camera’s view before coming back into the frame. Japanese claim the collision was provoked by several hours of provocation at the hands of the Ady Gil and that the Sea Shepherds were the aggressors. [Article continues with photo gallery on page 2<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n

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“The Sea Shepherd extremism is becoming more violent…Their actions are nothing but felonious behavior,” said the Institute for Cetacean Research in a written statement that was heavy on the rhetoric.<\/p>\n

“Contrary to its claims to be a marine wildlife conservation group in reality they are dedicated to fund-rising [sic] and to spread violence under pretext of protecting whales.”<\/p>\n

The statement went on to take a rather ironic jab at the Sea Shepherds for abandoning prop-fouling ropes and “spoiling the Antarctic marine environment.”<\/p>\n

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Both the Sea Shepherds and the Japanese whaling fleet have stepped up their efforts this year. The Sea Shepherds, by sea; the Japanese whalers, by air.<\/p>\n

The Sea Shepherds added two new vessels, the Ady Gil–which may have sailed for the last time–and the newly-added Bob Barker, named after the TV game show host and long-time patron of conservation’s $5 million donation to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. To counter the additions to the Sea Shepherd floatilla, the Japanese began conducting surveillance flights from Tasmanian airports to track the location of the protest ships. A move that has already triggered condemnation from the Tasmanian Greens<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Japanese whalers have now escalated this conflict very violently,\u201d Sea Shepherd Capt. Watson in a statement after the incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they think that our remaining two ships will retreat from the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary in the face of their extremism, they will be mistaken.\u00a0 We now have a real whale war on our hands now and we have no intention of retreating.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

Photo credits: <\/strong>1. and 3. JoAnne McArthur\/Sea Shepherd<\/em>; all other images: Institute of Cetacean Research<\/em> Other sources used in this story:<\/strong> Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/em>; Herald Sun<\/a><\/em>; Ecorazzi<\/a><\/em>. Tim Hurst is the editor of ecopolitology<\/em><\/a>, follow him on twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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