Greenpeace fighting Japanese whalers in Antarctic

Greenpeace have a really good site where the captians of their ships write frequently about their efforts to stop the whaling in Antartica.

weblog.greenpeace.org...

Today ended with a sad and bizarre scene. At first we thought they had missed. Both of our boats were caught far out of position - on the whaler's starboard (right), while the whale was to port (left) and ahead. Then the Hughie (heli pilot) reported blood in the water.

A huge amount of blood.

The whale had been hit. It was mortally wounded, but for the first time we have seen the harpoon had not set. Our boats fell to the back of the Yushin Maru No. 2, well out of its way - hoping the whalers would end the animal's suffering.