From Tim Blair:

A threat from those whale-savin’ sea-vegans:

" Hardline anti-whaling activists are threatening to sacrifice their ship in Antarctic waters by ramming a Japanese whaler …

[Captain Paul] Watson said his boat, currently north of the Balleny Islands, west of the Ross Sea, was now seen as a pirate vessel, and he would rather lose it in defence of whales than to bureaucrats.

He intends to take drastic action, probably in the next 24 hours, to slam his vessel into the Nisshin Maru’s slipway, preventing it from hunting more whales."

Shortly afterwards:

" Anti-whaling activists say one of their vessels and a Japanese whaling ship have collided near the Ross Sea, sparking a distress call from the Japanese crew.

A statement from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said the whaling vessel, the Kaiko Maru, issued the distress call, which the group had acknowledged, about 3.20pm today."

I agree wholeheartedly with one of Tim's later commenters. "Pirates is pirates. Board ‘em and hang ‘em."