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High Seas Drama Unfolding: Campaigners Plan to Ram Whaling Ships

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Flagship Farley Mowat

Radical environmentalist group Sea Shepherd has again vowed to ram Japanese ships hunting whales in the Antarctic Ocean.

Japan's six-vessel whaling fleet took off from the western port of Shimonoseki for its five-month voyage on Sunday heading to the Antarctic Ocean for a hunt that will include humpback whales for the first time.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society says it will physically stop the hunt by ramming whaling vessels if necessary.

“Basically we're going down there to stop them,” Sea Shepherd's Jonny (Jonny) Vasic told the Nine Network this morning.

“We're not going down there to protest; we're going down to directly intervene and put an end to this criminal behaviour."

“We've been known to ram a vessel that's engaged in illegal activity as a last ditch effort to get them to stop."

“We have a reputation of direct action and we mean business."

posted by Fergie @ 11/19/2007 08:49:00 PM