Seal Killers Attack Sea Shepherd Crew Members! (Boycott all Canadian products)

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Seal Killers Attack Sea Shepherd Crew Members!

 

 

Sea Shepherd News

 

Source (includes pictures) >

http://seashepherd.org/news/media_050331_3.html

 

03/31/2005

 

Crew Attacked and Arrested

 

Dr. Jerry Vlasak gets bloody nose from sealer

Sea Shepherd Director Dr. Jerry Vlasak gets bloody

nose from being hit in the face by a sealer

 

 

Ian Robichaud takes a pictures as he is being hit with

a hak-a-pik

Sea Shepherd volunteer and Harpseals.org Founder Ian

Robichaud takes a pictures as he is being hit with a

hak-a-pik

 

Farley Mowat Update by Captain Paul Watson

 

 

 

1520 Hours AST

 

 

 

The Farley Mowat is under attack.

 

 

 

11 crewmembers have been arrested by the Mounted

Police for taking pictures of sealers. They were

arrested after 8 sealers physically assaulted 7 Sea

Shepherd crewmembers on the ice with hak-a-piks and

clubs.

 

 

 

The sealers were from the sealing ship the Brady

Mariner out of Newfoundland.

 

 

 

The Canadian Coast Guard ship on the scene is the

Amundsen.

 

 

 

The 11 Crew In Custody are:

 

 

 

Colin Biroc - American

 

Andre Casanave – American

 

Alex Cornelissen - Dutch

 

Laura Dakin – Australian

 

Ian Fritz - American

 

Ryan Goyette - American

 

Peter Hammarstedt - Swedish

 

Matthew Schwartz - American

 

Lisa Shalom - Canadian - assaulted

 

Megan Southern - American

 

Jerry Vlasak - American - assaulted

 

 

 

 

 

Other Crew Assaulted:

 

 

 

Jon Batchlor - American - assaulted

 

Lisa Moises - German - assaulted

 

Ian Robichaud - American - assaulted

 

Jonny Vasic - American - assaulted

 

Lisa Moises and Ian Robichaud barely made it back to

the Farley Mowat. They watched as the massive red hull

of the Coast Guard Icebreaker Amundsen bore quickly

down on them in an attempt to cut them off. They could

see chunks of ice flying out from the bow of the ice

breaker but they kept focused on the Farley Mowat and

managed to make it across.

 

Behind them Jonny Vasic and Jon Batchelor raced to

cross the ice before the Amundsen could cut them off.

Jonny saw the hull looming above him and felt the ice

tremble as a jagged cut slithered before the bow and

opened up. He could see the dark black water widening

as he jumped and made it across, relieved to see that

Jon Batchelor had done the same. Both of them raced

towards the Farley Mowat.

 

Behind them Alex Cornelissen and Lisa Shalom were not

so lucky. They were cut off and unable to cross the

treacherous lead that the Amundsen had opened up.

 

They saw helicopters approaching and police officers

debarking the Ice breaker, their hands on their guns

approaching them.

 

Sea Shepherd crew attacked by sealers

 

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