Sea Shepherd Activists Found Safe

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Crew found Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 16:27:29 +1100 From: Jon Sumby To: Jon Sumby

Sea Shepherd Activists Found Safe

'Two missing Sea Shepherd activists have been found safe in the Antarctic, and hostilities have resumed against the Japanese whaling fleet.

The whalers called a truce to help the hardline anti-whaling group in their search caused when the two aboard a Zodiac inflatable dinghy disappeared suddenly in fog in icy waters south-west of Australia.

Sea Shepherd president Paul Watson told theage.com.au the inflatable's engine broke down, stranding Karl Nielsen, of Perth, Western Australia, and John Gravois of Los Angeles, USA.

"We just kept going out from one point in a circular search until we found them," said Captain Watson, aboard the Sea Shepherd flagship Farley Mowat. "They were standing up and waving and smiling."

Captain Watson said he had thanked the Japanese for their assistance, and then told them, "now it's back to business." He said the other Sea Shepherd vessel, Robert Hunter, was back on the stern of Nisshin Maru.

It is the first time the Japanese whaling fleet has worked in coordination with the anti-whaling ships of Sea Shepherd or Greenpeace.' - From The Age online

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