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.
Australian customs ship Oceanic Viking will pick up the two men from the Japanese ship and return them to their anti-whaling vessel as soon as the details can be arranged, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said.
