Anti-whaling crusaders yesterday had their ship”s hull gashed open by a Japanese harpoon vessel in Antarctic water _ the second major collision this year.
The campaigners say that at about noon today the Yushin Maru 3 “intentionally rammed the Sea Shepherd ship Bob Barker, penetrating its hull””.
They said the collision occurred about 288km off Cape Darnley in the Australian Antarctic Territory.
‘The Bob Barker had been actively blocking the slipway of the Nisshin Maru, the Japanese whaling fleet’s factory ship when the collision occurred,” one campaigner said…. Watch Video