The Ady Gil is seen as it collided with the Japanese
whaling ship Shonan Maru in the Antarctic waters
Australia sent the customs ship, the Oceanic Viking, to the Japanese
whaling ship in a bid to end the stand-off involving the activists of the militant Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
At the end of the book, an author's note provides information about the archaeologists who uncovered a wrecked
whaling ship and located a cemetery mentioned in the story.
Japanese officials said at least three crew members were slightly injured on the Nisshin Maru
whaling ship, which is conducting what Japan calls a research whaling programme in the Antarctic.
TOKYO - A Japanese
whaling ship handed over to an Australian government ship two anti-whaling activists detained after they boarded the vessel operating Tuesday in the Antarctic Ocean, Japan's Fisheries Agency said Thursday.
A showdown in the icy waters of the Antarctic appeared close to a resolution Thursday afternoon, with Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith confirming the government will send a patrol vessel to pick up two anti-whaling activists being detained on a Japanese
whaling ship.
TWO anti-whaling protestors, one a Briton, were held on a Japanese
whaling ship after boarding it in a protest yesterday.
Analyzing whale oil from the
whaling ship Charles W.
An 85-year-old vial of oil from a
whaling ship has revealed that a mysterious group of organic chemicals resembling human-made compounds are naturally produced in the sea.
The harpoon from a Japanese
whaling ship landed just ahead of a Greenpeace inflatable, killing its target.