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Wednesday, January 6, 2010
New Zealand calls for restraint after whaling clash
The damaged Ady Gil following its confrontation with a Japanese whaling vessel. Photograph: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society/EPA
Paul Watson, head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, shown in this April 14, 2008 file photo, in Sydney, Nova Scotia..
The New Zealand government said on Thursday that whalers and anti-whaling protesters must now put a greater premium on human life.
New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully said the clash must not be allowed to escalate.
"The New Zealand government is totally opposed to Japanese whaling taking place in the Southern (Pacific) Ocean, but we're also opposed to killing human beings down there as well," Radio New Zealand quoted McCully as saying.
"It's quite clear that unless there is some restraint exercise, there is serious risk to human life in that region at the moment," he added.
Maritime New Zealand will meet on Thursday to discuss how an investigation into the collision involving a protest boat and a Japanese security ship in Antarctica will proceed.
Japan's government-backed whaling fleet aims to harpoon up to 935 mink whales and 50 fin whales, classed as endangered, in the Southern Ocean this season, claiming it is for research purposes.
The Ady Gil collided with the security ship Shonan Maru No. 2 near Commonwealth Bay on Wednesday.
The New Zealand-registered vessel is the powerboat previously known as Earthrace, which set a world circumnavigation record.
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society claimed the security ship rammed the protesters deliberately.
However, a group representing the Japanese whalers, the Institute of Cetacean Research, said footage of a crash showed the security ship was trying to avoid colliding with the Ady Gil.
The incident was filmed from the Shonan Maru No. 2 and showed that the Ady Gil was stationary, but began to move as the vessels came closer together.
The crash tore about 3 meters off the bow of the Ady Gil, but none of its crew members - five from New Zealand and one from the Netherlands - were hurt. They were rescued by the crew of the Sea Shepherd ship Bob Barker.
High Tech 2 million vessel damaged
The damage inflicted to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) boat the Ady Gil in a collision with a whaling ship is likely to reignite the row over the environmental group's tactics.
Paul Watson, who helped set up Greenpeace in 1972, and now heads the SSCS has been labelled an eco-terrorist and dangerous extremist by his former comrades, with whom he is locked in a long-running feud.
While both groups have targeted the Japanese whale hunts in the Southern Ocean, Greenpeace refuses to co-operate with SSCS by sharing information on the whereabouts of whaling fleets because it says SSCS uses violent tactics. Watson counters this, saying his methods yield results and SSCS has sunk 10 whaling ships, with no injuries caused.
Watson was membership number 008 in Greenpeace. He founded SSCS's forerunner, the Earth Force Society, in 1977, the same year he was voted off Greenpeace's board of directors. There were concerns within Greenpeace over his methods, including an incident when he pulled a club from a sealer's hand and threw it in the water, but Watson claims he left on good terms. However, his departure only highlighted the groups' ideological differences.
In 1986, on being asked what he thought of being labelled an eco-terrorist by Greenpeace, Watson responded by calling them "the Avon Ladies of the environmental movement", something he says they have never forgiven him for. Five years later they agreed to refrain from criticising each other but the truce failed to hold, with each blaming the other for violating it.
The gloves really came off towards the end of 2008. In November of that year, Watson labelled his former organisation "Yellowpeace" for deciding not to send a ship to counter the Japanese whaling fleet. Greenpeace said its campaign had reached the "endgame" and it would instead concentrate on changing public opinion in Japan.
The following month it published a 2,672-word missive on Watson entitled Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace: Some Facts. The article noted that "stories of divisiveness within the ranks of environmental groups distract from the real issues," but then went on to attack Watson on a variety of fronts, even challenging the idea that he was a founding member of Greenpeace, describing him instead as an "early member".
Watson hit back by issuing an even longer rebuttal. In response to Greenpeace's analysis that Japanese whaling would be stopped "by a domestic decision within the Japanese government to do so", he compared the group's attitude to that of "Jewish leaders in the Warsaw ghetto that resulted in the Holocaust".
Before the Ady Gil set sail for Antarctica in December, Watson told the Guardian that Greenpeace's claim he was not a founder member was "Bolshevik revisionism" and said his old organisation was bitter about the success of SSCS. "I think they're angry with us because of the success of Whale Wars [the hit TV series following SSCS in its Antarctic campaign in 2008], because we have actually made a difference," he said.
"We're not a protest organisation … we intervene against illegal activities and as far as we're concerned Japanese whalers are poachers."
Despite – or perhaps because of – his outspoken opinions, Watson has won the support of luminaries including the Dalai Lama, Mick Jagger, Daryl Hannah and Uma Thurman. SSCS even earned the dubious honour of being parodied in the US animated comedy South Park in an episode entitled Whale Whores, where its activists were depicted as "vegan pussies" posing as pirates and Watson got a harpoon through the head. Nevertheless, he proclaimed himself happy with the publicity.
At the beginning of Operation Waltzing Matilda, Watson talked up the impact the Ady Gil, formerly known as Earthrace, would have in confronting whalers. He said the boat, with a top speed of up to 50 knots (58mph) and able to dive under waves completely, would "give us the speed we need to intercept the harpooners. This vessel is twice as fast as a harpoon vessel".
But instead the $1.5m biodiesel-fuelled boat has come a cropper and the incident is likely to provide ammunition for those who criticise his methods.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
1 dead, 5 hurt in CA Coast Guard boat collision
A 33-foot Coast Guard vessel and a pleasure boat collided as a Christmas watercraft parade was going on in San Diego Bay, killing an 8-year-old boy and seriously injuring five people, authorities said.
There were no other injuries among the 13 people aboard the 24-foot pleasure boat in the 6 p.m. accident Sunday, Coast Guard spokeswoman Jetta Disco said. None of the five people aboard the Coast Guard patrol boat was hurt.
The injured were rushed to University of California, San Diego Hospital, where the boy was declared dead, said Fire Department spokesman Maurice Luque.
Five others were treated for serious injuries.
"They're all considered major traumas," Luque said.
No names or details of the injuries were released.
Neither boat was participating in the parade, said Ron Sheehan, spokesman for the San Diego Bay Parade of Lights, in which more than 80 vessels festooned with Christmas lights and decorations cruise through the bay.
Many boats full of spectators filled the bay to watch the parade and fireworks. But the Coast Guard did not say if the recreational boat was among them or how close the accident occurred to the parade area.
Authorities have not said how the accident occurred, but it came just after sundown in clear weather with light winds.
Sandy Fenten told the San Diego Union-Tribune she was sitting on Harbor Island when she saw a boat with emergency lights head toward downtown San Diego, then turn around and collide with another boat.
"All of a sudden, you heard this tremendous thud or crash," said Fenten.
The parade's Web site said an estimated 80,000 people were expected to attend the last of eight nights of the parade Sunday, which also featured a fireworks show.
The 87-foot Coast Guard cutter Haddock had been scheduled to lead the parade, which was supposed to begin about the same time as the accident, but was called away to the collision scene.
The parade otherwise continued as planned, Sheehan said.
Paramedics took the child victim to a fuel dock at Harbor Island then taken by ambulance to the hospital, and the five injured adults were taken by boat to Shelter Island, then by ambulance to the hospital.
The Coast Guard patrol boat was responding to a report of a grounded vessel at the time of the collision, Disco said.
Sector San Diego Commander Capt. Tom Farris said in a statement that the Coast Guard and other agencies "will conduct a thorough investigation to try to determine what led to this tragedy and what can be done to prevent similar incidents in the future."
Farris said the National Transportation Safety Board was assisting in the investigation.
Both boats returned to shore and were being assessed for damages, Disco said.
San Diego Harbor Police and the San Diego Fire Department assisted in the rescue efforts, officials said.
There were no other injuries among the 13 people aboard the 24-foot pleasure boat in the 6 p.m. accident Sunday, Coast Guard spokeswoman Jetta Disco said. None of the five people aboard the Coast Guard patrol boat was hurt.
The injured were rushed to University of California, San Diego Hospital, where the boy was declared dead, said Fire Department spokesman Maurice Luque.
Five others were treated for serious injuries.
"They're all considered major traumas," Luque said.
No names or details of the injuries were released.
Neither boat was participating in the parade, said Ron Sheehan, spokesman for the San Diego Bay Parade of Lights, in which more than 80 vessels festooned with Christmas lights and decorations cruise through the bay.
Many boats full of spectators filled the bay to watch the parade and fireworks. But the Coast Guard did not say if the recreational boat was among them or how close the accident occurred to the parade area.
Authorities have not said how the accident occurred, but it came just after sundown in clear weather with light winds.
Sandy Fenten told the San Diego Union-Tribune she was sitting on Harbor Island when she saw a boat with emergency lights head toward downtown San Diego, then turn around and collide with another boat.
"All of a sudden, you heard this tremendous thud or crash," said Fenten.
The parade's Web site said an estimated 80,000 people were expected to attend the last of eight nights of the parade Sunday, which also featured a fireworks show.
The 87-foot Coast Guard cutter Haddock had been scheduled to lead the parade, which was supposed to begin about the same time as the accident, but was called away to the collision scene.
The parade otherwise continued as planned, Sheehan said.
Paramedics took the child victim to a fuel dock at Harbor Island then taken by ambulance to the hospital, and the five injured adults were taken by boat to Shelter Island, then by ambulance to the hospital.
The Coast Guard patrol boat was responding to a report of a grounded vessel at the time of the collision, Disco said.
Sector San Diego Commander Capt. Tom Farris said in a statement that the Coast Guard and other agencies "will conduct a thorough investigation to try to determine what led to this tragedy and what can be done to prevent similar incidents in the future."
Farris said the National Transportation Safety Board was assisting in the investigation.
Both boats returned to shore and were being assessed for damages, Disco said.
San Diego Harbor Police and the San Diego Fire Department assisted in the rescue efforts, officials said.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Somali pirates say British couple taken to land-Somali pirates: Western boats 'loot' Somali fish
n this undated photo made available by the family, shows Paul Chandler, who went missing with his wife Rachel when sailing from the Seychelles to Tanzania after sending a distress signal on Friday, Oct. 23, 2009, at an unknown location. The British navy on Thursday Oct. 29, 2009 found an empty yacht in international waters belonging to the missing British couple and a defense official said Somali pirates may have transferred them to another vessel. International naval forces have been searching for the couple for days. Paul and Rachel Chandler were heading to Tanzania in their yacht, the Lynn Rival, when a distress signal was sent last Friday.
In this undated photo made available by the family, Paul and Rachel Chandler, who went missing when sailing from the Seychelles to Tanzania after sending a distress signal on Friday, Oct. 23, 2009, are seen at an unknown location. The British navy on Thursday found an empty yacht in international waters belonging to the missing British couple and a defense official said Somali pirates may have transferred them to another vessel. International naval forces have been searching for the couple for days. Paul and Rachel Chandler were heading to Tanzania in their yacht, the Lynn Rival, when a distress signal was sent last Friday.
In this undated photo made available by the family, shows Paul Chandler, who went missing with his wife Rachel when sailing from the Seychelles to Tanzania after sending a distress signal on Friday, Oct. 23, 2009, at an unknown location. The British navy on Thursday Oct. 29, 2009 found an empty yacht in international waters belonging to the missing British couple and a defense official said Somali pirates may have transferred them to another vessel. International naval forces have been searching for the couple for days. Paul and Rachel Chandler were heading to Tanzania in their yacht, the Lynn Rival, when a distress signal was sent last Friday.
In this undated photo made available by the family, shows Paul Chandler, who went missing with his wife Rachel when sailing from the Seychelles to Tanzania after sending a distress signal on Friday, Oct. 23, 2009, at an unknown location. The British navy on Thursday Oct. 29, 2009 found an empty yacht in international waters belonging to the missing British couple and a defense official said Somali pirates may have transferred them to another vessel. International naval forces have been searching for the couple for days. Paul and Rachel Chandler were heading to Tanzania in their yacht, the Lynn Rival, when a distress signal was sent last Friday.
Somali pirates who are demanding $7 million in ransom for a British sailing couple say boats from other countries are "looting" Somalia's fish-rich waters.
Ahmed Gadaf, who says he's a spokesman for the pirates, says Western fishing vessels "harass" local fishermen and destroy their nets. Gadaf spoke to The Associated Press by satellite phone.
Gadaf says the British couple, Paul and Rachel Chandler, are safe and will not be harmed.
Illegal fishing off the coast of Somalia stirs strong passions in the country. The country's prime minister, Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, said in a speech last week that many countries are fishing illegally in Somali waters and have pushed formerly profitable Somali fishermen into the pirate trade.
Somali pirates who are demanding $7 million in ransom for a British sailing couple say boats from other countries are plundering Somalia's fish-rich waters, a pirate spokesman said Saturday.
Ahmed Gadaf, who says he's a spokesman for the pirates, said the group holding the couple hostage off Somalia's coast was made up of "voluntary guards" — not pirates.
"The Western forces continue to loot our natural resources. They continue to harass local fishermen and destroy their fishing nets, so we want them to taste the consequence," Gadaf said by satellite phone from the coastal town of Haradhere.
The British couple, Paul and Rachel Chandler, are safe and will not be harmed, Gadaf said. They will be released once the ransom is paid, he said.
The Chandlers were headed to Tanzania in their boat, the Lynn Rival, when a distress signal was sent Oct. 23. The British navy found their empty yacht on Thursday, and both have been in sporadic contact with the British media since.
Illegal fishing off the coast of Somalia stirs strong passions in the country. The prime minister of Somalia's transitional government, Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, said in a speech Wednesday that many pirates are former fishermen "responding to the loss and disappearance of their livelihoods."
"Many of these pirates were once profitable fisherman and would be so again given the chance," he said at the London-based Chatham House think tank.
"I shall not name names, but suffice to say many countries are fishing illegally in Somali waters," he said. "We estimate that the value of the fish being taken from our waters is perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars.
"It is wholly unacceptable for these countries, many of whom claim they want to help Somalia, to turn a blind eye to this theft. Particularly when that theft robs thousands of Somali people of a way out of poverty and a way out of piracy," Sharmarke said.
Rachel Chandler told her brother in a telephone call broadcast by ITV News on Friday that the pirates were "hospitable people," a message that Sharmarke underscored in his London remarks.
British officials held a meeting on the hostage situation Friday in the government's crisis briefing room. The Foreign Office said a team from across several government departments was involved. Both the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defense declined to comment on whether any potential rescue was under consideration.
Pirate attacks have increased the last several weeks after the recent end of the monsoon season. An international armada is patrolling the region to try to stop the attacks.
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Sunday, September 6, 2009
Dozens missing from sunken ferry - Latests now only 3 dead and 80 missings.
Childrens were among the rescued travelling from General Santos to Iloilo.
Rescue operation start immediately assisted by fair weather and presence of other vessels in nearby area where the Ferry sinks.
The SuperFerry 9 were sinking and listing to the right at 0230 Sunday. Nearby ships rush to rescue after responding to the Mayday call. More than 900 were rescued and about 80 are still missing. Ferry were also carrying unlisted dangerious cargo on board like petrol and such.
Mora than 900 people are rescued from the sinking Ferry in Filipina.
Those rescued were transferred to 2 navy ships , 2 nearby civilian vessels and other similar ships who respond to the Mayday distress call.
The captain try to correct the list , but failed , and declared abandon ship to the distraught passengers
SuperFerry 9 start to list to right 0230 sunday.
Philippine authorities are continuing to search for about 30 people still missing after a ferry sank in the middle of the night.
Nine people died when the SuperFerry 9 listed then sank, but more than 900 were rescued from life rafts near the southern city of Zamboanga.
Officials are hopeful some passengers may still be drifting in life rafts.
The Philippine defence minister said the rescue had been helped by the presence of other vessels nearby.
The SuperFerry 9 began listing about 0203 local time on Sunday (1830 GMT Saturday) during its journey from General Santos to Iloilo, and all on board were ordered onto life rafts when it became apparent that the problem could not be fixed.
The coastguard, the navy, the air force and private boats in the area rushed to help.
The death toll could rise if reports of more fishing boats bringing in dead bodies proved accurate, officials said.
The Philippine air force and army have sent helicopters to help in the search for those still missing.
The cause of the sinking was unknown, but the weather was reported to be fair at the time of the incident.
The ferry ran into trouble about 530 miles (860km) south of the Philippine capital, Manila.
A spokesman for the ferry owner, Aboitiz Transport System, said the priority was to find survivors.
"The focus of the company now, in co-ordination with the authorities, is the rescue and the proper counting of the survivors," said Erden Ferrer.
"That is actually the primary objective we have at the moment."
He said the company was finding out what happened to the crew.
"The captain is alive. The captain is on board the Navy Ship 116, at the moment; that we have confirmed.
"And also, about the 113 crew, we're still verifying the number and the whereabouts of the crew."
The company earlier said that the crew were the last to leave the ship at 0842 local time, when the ferry finally sank.
PHILIPPINES' WORST FERRY DISASTERS
1987: More than 4,300 people die when the Dona Paz ferry collides with an oil tanker off Mindoro island - the world's worst peacetime shipping disaster.
2008: More than 800 people killed when the Princess of the Stars ferry capsizes during a typhoon
1988: Dona Paz's sister ship, Dona Marilyn, sinks off Leyte province, killing 250-300 people
1998: The Princess of the Orient ferry sinks near Batangas province, killing 150-200 people
1994: About 140 people die when a freighter hits the Cebu City ferry in Manila Bay
2004: A fire aboard the Superferry 14 kills 116 people near Manila Bay. Abu Sayyaf claims it
planted a bomb on board
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Filipina Ferry Sinks 60 still missing , 5 dead. Carrying 1000 people and unlisted dangerous cargo
Survivors of the ferry save by coast guard.
Outdated photo of the ferry.
A ferry carrying nearly 1,000 passengers sank in the southern Philippines early Sunday, leaving at least five dead and more than 60 missing.
At least five people have been killed and dozens have gone missing after a Philippine ferry sank with more than 960 people onboard.
Coastguards said 900 passengers and crewmembers were rescued from the Superferry 9, which sank off the southern Zamboanga peninsula on Sunday, while more than 60 others are still unaccounted for.
The passenger ferry on its journey from General Santos to Ilioilo encountered trouble before dawn and issued a distress signal around 4:00 am (2000 GMT Saturday) which promoted the coastguard, navy, air force and private boats to rush to its aid. The boat sank several hours after rescue operations began.
The sinking of Superferry 9 vessel in waters off the southern Philippines on Sunday was just the latest in a series of deadly accidents across this nation.
Ferries, whether steel-hulled versions like Superferry 9 or wooden dugouts with outriggers, are the backbone of maritime travel in this Southeast Asian nation, especially for the poor who cannot afford air tickets.
The ferry was carrying 200,000 litres of industrial fuel oil, 80,000 litres of automotive diesel oil, and 10,000 litres of lube oil when it departed Manila for Iloilo and General Santos City.It was on its return voyage from General Santos to Iloilo and Manila when it encountered problems, the coastguard report said.
"No dangerous or hazardous cargo was declared to be onboard MV SuperFerry 9," it said.
Navy ships were deployed and three military aircraft scoured the seas, Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro said. American troops providing counterterrorism training to Philippine soldiers in the region deployed a civilian helicopter and five boats, some carrying paramedics, to help, U.S. Col. William Coultrup said.
Teodoro said two men and a child drowned during the scramble to escape the ship. The bodies of two other passengers were later plucked from the sea by fishermen, the coast guard said, adding that three passengers were injured.
The cause of the listing was not clear. The ferry skipper initially ordered everyone on board to abandon the ship as a precautionary step, said Jess Supan, vice president of Aboitiz Transport System, which owns the steel-hulled ferry.
There were reports that the ferry listed to the right due to a hole in the hull, the National Disaster Coordinating Council said. As the 7,268-ton ferry tilted, some passengers may have panicked and jumped into the water, the coast guard said.
Passenger Roger Cinciron told DZMM radio by cell phone that he felt the ferry was tilting around midnight but he was assured by a crewman that everything was well. About two hours later, he was roused from sleep by the sound of crashing cargo below his cabin, he said.
"People began to panic because the ship was really tilting," he said as he waited for rescuers to save him and a group of more than 20 other passengers.
The ferry left the southern port city of General Santos on Saturday and was scheduled to arrive in Iloilo city in the central Philippines later Sunday but ran into problems midway, Tamayo said.
There were no signs of possible terrorism, he said.
Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf militants bombed another Superferry in Manila Bay in 2004, setting off an inferno that killed 116 people in Southeast Asia's second-worst terrorist attack.
The weather was generally fair in the Zamboanga peninsula region, about 530 miles south of Manila, although a tropical storm was battering the country's mountainous north, the coast guard said.
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