Sunday January 17, 2010
Street Fight On The High Seas
Raffi Khatchadourian
The New Yorker
Several days ago in the Southern Ocean, off the coast of Antarctica, a Japanese whaling vessel, the Shonan Maru No. 2, heaved into a high-speed trimaran owned by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an environmentalist group that I profiled in The New Yorker in 2007.
The collision caused about ten feet of the trimaran’s hull to splinter off and break apart into the icy depths. The event was both violent and perilous: the trimaran’s remaining shell subsequently took on large amounts of water, and one of the six people onboard was injured.
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