Anti-Whaling Activists, Japanese Whalers At Odds Over Missing Sailor

Posted on | January 7, 2009 |

Sea Shepherd, the Greenpeace splinter group that sails around Antarctic waters harassing a Japanese whaling fleet in hopes of reducing its whaling activity, is now defending itself against claims of interfering with a search for a man overboard : Japanese whalers accused hardline anti-whaling activists on Wednesday of disrupting a search for a missing sailor believed to have drowned after toppling overboard in stormy and frigid seas close to Antarctica. Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson told Reuters by satellite phone that he only offered to help with the search and had contacted search and rescue authorities in New Zealand to volunteer use of his ship’s on-board helicopter.

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