Japanese whaler moves away from Antarctic coast

A Japanese whaling ship has begun moving away from the Antarctic coast under its own power, an official said today – 10 days after fire crippled the vessel and left it stricken near the world’s biggest Adelie penguin rookery.

“The Nisshin Maru is moving northward at the moment, away from the coast,” a spokesman for Japan’s Institute for Cetacean Research, Glenn Inwood said.