Anti-whaling protesters lost for hours in Antarctic waters

Searchers in freezing Antarctic waters found two anti-whaling activists today after their inflatable dinghy became lost in heavy fog, the international conservation group Sea Shepherd said.

A Sea Shepherd protest ship, the Farley Mowat, plucked the pair – a US citizen and an Australian – from the sea more than seven hours after they went missing while confronting Japanese whaling craft, the ship’s skipper said.