Video: Amazing footage of activists crashing into a whaling boat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEVUEQ3SDyU

Animal rights activists are pretty serious customers when it comes to making protests, and this clip is no different.

By Adrian Collins

Some incredible footage here of three ships colliding in the ocean near the Antarctic, one of which is a giant tanker full of fuel.

Animal rights group Sea Shepherd's ship “Bob Baker” appears to hit the whaling vessel “Nisshin Maru” a few times in this clip as it attempts to refuel in the Southern Ocean.

Here's a different angle, shot from the whaling boat, as the ships collide together.

As it stands, both sides are claiming the others are to blame, with Sea Shepherd saying they were intentionally rammed, (and not for the first time) while the Japanese Institute of Cetacean Research claims they positioned themselves to block fuelling.

Sea Shepherd representatives also claim that the ICR were whaling in a sanctuary, which is why they got involved in the first place, but we think this is definitely not the end of this particular story.