After Sea Shepherd's "Ady Gil" disappeared beneath the waves following a collision with a Japanese whaler, one might think that environmentalists at sea had been delivered a decisive blow. Alas, for the nasty old whalers and other defilers of the ocean, there is more where that came from on the way.
Greenpeace has broken with tradition and commissioned a totally brand new ship to take over from it's flagship Rainbow Warrior II.
German and Polish shipyards will shortly start work on Greenpeace's £14m flagship, a mega-yacht that will become the third Rainbow Warrior next year. It will be one of the biggest yachts to have been commissioned in the last decade with, say the designers, a massive 1,300 sq metres of sail supported on two A-frame masts.
Back at Sea Shepherd a new ship, the Bob Barker, has already been launched to defend the whales (ironically it's a former whaling ship), and moves are afoot to raise more money for a bigger and better ship which will hopefully now replace the Ady Gil.
And another environmental ocean going group, Oceana, has plans to lease a third ocean going vessel.
All in all it's a bad day for illegal fishing, whaling and other assorted environmental crimes.
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