http:/teakdoor.com The Travel Forum.<br /><br />Anti-whaling activists accuse Japan fleet of attack<br />Sea Shepherd Conservation Society anti-whaling vessel Ady Gil on 6 January 2010 - photo from Institute of Cetacean Research of Japan<br />The Sea Shepherd said the bow was sheared off the Ady Gil<br /><br />Anti-whaling activists have accused a Japanese vessel of ramming their high-tech speed boat during a confrontation in the Southern Ocean.<br /><br />The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society says its vessel was sliced in half, but all six crew were rescued.<br /><br />Earlier the campaigners - who are trying to stop Japan's whaling fleet - said they threw chemicals onto the whaling boat to prevent it being used.<br /><br />The whalers said the activists tried to tangle their propeller with a rope.<br /><br />'Whale war'<br /><br />In recent years the two sides have regularly confronted each other in the waters around the Antarctic.<br /><br />Sea Shepherd spokesman Paul Watson said the incident had turned the confrontations between the whalers
