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To: combjelly who wrote (541935)	1/7/2010 10:25:36 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1576985

lolol these bozos can't do anything right, typical liberal. Damaged antiwhaling stealth vessel sinks off Antarctica+ Jan 7 09:37 PM US/Eastern SYDNEY, Jan. 8 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Antiwhaling group the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society confirmed Friday that their stealth powerboat, the Ady Gil, sank in waters off Antarctica after it was severely damaged in a skirmish with Japanese whalers. Locky Maclean, first mate on board the group's flagship vessel, the Steve Irwin, told Kyodo News the Ady Gil was being towed by their other boat, the Bob Barker, when it sank around 4:20 a.m. Melbourne time. "The Bob Barker was towing the Ady Gil and the central hull started filling with water. The weather got tough and we had to cut it loose," Maclean said. The boat became submerged and sank about 290 kilometers north of Commonwealth Bay, off the coast of Antarctica. The group had been towing the 24-meter trimaran to the Dumont d'Urville French Antarctic station. Maclean said the French base has an ice-breaker vessel with a 50 ton crane, which the group had planned to use to transfer the damaged ship to the ice-breaker or onto dry land. He said the Sea Shepherd group had planned to bring the Ady Gil to Australia. The A$1.5 million (about US$1.4 million) Ady Gil was damaged during a collision with the Shonan Maru No. 2, a security vessel of the Japanese whaling fleet, on Wednesday afternoon. One crew member on board the Ady Gil sustained broken ribs in the collision, but there were no reports of injuries on the Japanese vessel. Both parties blame each other for the incident, which sliced 2.5 meters off the bow of the Ady Gil. Antiwhaling protestors claim the much larger Japanese vessel deliberately rammed into them, near Commonwealth Bay. However, Akira Gunji, senior vice minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, told reporters in Japan on Thursday the collision had been an act of sabotage by the conservation group. Shortly before the collision on Wednesday the protestors had come to "collision distance" when they tried to entangle the rudder of the Nisshin Maru, the whaling mother ship, Japan's semi-official Institute of Cetacean Research claimed. Sea Shepherd now has two boats in the Southern Ocean -- the Steve Irwin and the Bob Barker, a former Norwegian whaling vessel. Australia, New Zealand and Japan are currently investigating the accident.