Australia to send ship to retrieve seized activists

The Australian government said today it would send a ship to retrieve two seized activists from a Japanese whaler in Antarctic waters.

The move follows a two-day stand-off in which Briton Giles Lane, 35, from Brighton in England, and Australian Benjamin Potts, 28, were being held on board Yushin Maru No 2, one of the Japanese whaling fleet currently in Antarctic waters.