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MONTH: September 2007

Norwegian whaler scuttled at dock

 

OSLO--Sabotage was suspected in the August 30, 2007 dockside sinking of the whaling vessel Willassen Senior in the northern Norwegian port city of Svolvaer. No injuries were reported.

"On the night of August 30th we decided to celebrate the end of commercial whaling in Iceland by removing a large section of cooling pipe in the engine room of the Norweigan whaler Willassen Senior," said an anonymous e-mail forwarded on September 11, 2007 from Norwegian activist Daniel Rolke to Dolphin Project founder Ric O'Barry, who shared it with ANIMAL PEOPLE.

The e-mail was signed "Agenda 21," the name of a United Nations Environmental Program protocol.

"This is the fifth Norwegian whaler that has come under attack for illegal whaling activities since 1992," e-mailed Sea Shepherd Conservation Society founder Paul Watson from Friday Harbor, Washington. "The others were the Nybraena, scuttled at dockside in December 1992; the Senet, scuttled at dockside in January 1994; the Elin-Toril, severely damaged in 1997; and the Morild, sunk in 1998."

All were refloated and repaired.