Harpoon fired over Greenpeace pair
(N.Z. Press Assn—Copyright) SAN FRANCISCO, June 30. The Greenpeace Foundation which a few years ago sent three ships into a French nuclear test zone, is now trying to block Russian vessels hunting whales off northern California. Officials of the organisation, which is based in Vancouver, said during the week-1 end that the 80ft Phyllis .Cormack had tried to subvert! ' the whaling activities of nine; Russian vessels, 50 miles west of Eureka, California. Two men in a rubber raft I from the Phyllis Cormack got (between a Russian whaler and a whale on Friday, but [the Russians fired a harpoon, I according to radio reports. It : narrowly missed the raft, but I hit the whale. ' A spokesman for the Greenpeace Foundation said
that there had not been radio contact with the Phyllis Cormack since. But the vessel had had radio problems before. Greenpeace officials said the plan of the Pyhllis Cormack was “to put ourselves between the whalers and the whales.” Mr George Korotva, one of two who were on the raft, said that when the Russian vessel fired at the whale, “they didn’t care whether they blasted us out of the water or not; they could have 1 killed us.” Mr Bob Hunter, a reporter for the “Vancouver Sun," was also in the raft. EIGHT CHASERS Mr Matthew Herron, a foundation representative, said the Russian whalers were the 300 ft factory ship Vostok and eight chasers each of about 150 feet. The fleet was believed to' have killed at least one undersize whale, said Mr Herron. The foundation planned to protest to the
United Nations, the International Whaling Commission, and the Canadian Government. The Phyllis Cormack had been trying to establish contact with whales by underwater electronic equipment transmitting music, he added. 1
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33883, 1 July 1975, Page 2
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