Protest Ship Pulls Out Of Sea Chase
The Age
Wednesday January 18, 2006
A PLAN to refuel the Sea Shepherd ship, the Farley Mowat, in the sub-Antarctic has failed, forcing it to pull out of its month-long chase after the Japanese whaling fleet.
The ship's captain, Paul Watson, said it was to refuel from a tanker near Kerguelen Island, about 2300 nautical miles south-west of Perth, but the delivery was cancelled. Farley Mowat is now likely to make for Cape Town or Perth. In Sea Shepherd's three brief encounters with the whaling fleet, activists twice tried to foul the propellers of the factory ship, the Nisshin Maru, and the Farley Mowat slammed the side of the resupply ship Oriental Bluebird.The chase begun by Greenpeace enters its fifth week today, with its vessel, Esperanza, still in touch with the Nisshin Maru in worsening weather.
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