Greenpeace tries to block Japanese whalers
Japanese whalers used water cannons to drive off Greenpeace protesters today as the environmental activists battled to prevent a Japanese ship from loading a harpooned whale in the Southern Ocean.
Speaking from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise off the Antarctic coast, expedition leader Shane Rattenbury said the Sunrise and sister ship Esperanza had tracked down the Japanese whaling vessel Nisshin Maru.
