In the Antarctic whale rammed the Japanese defenders kitoboets.

The vessel, owned by the environmental movement of Sea Shepherd ( "Sea Shepherd"), encountered in the Antarctic with a Japanese kitoboytsem, reports Reuters.
A collision occurred when the vessel "Steve Irwin", owned by Sea Shepherd, attempted to prevent kitoboytsu "Yusin 2-Maru" to deliver on the floating carcass of dead whales. Path defenders blocked the whale ship "Yusin 1-Maru." To avoid collision, the captain "Steve Irvine" Paul Watson gave reverse and rammed "Yusin-Maru 2.
As a result of the incident was damaged the upper part of the stern Japanese ship. No one was hurt.
The Japanese authorities called an act of violence occurred. According to the Japanese Ministry of Fisheries, the day before the incident, activists of Sea Shepherd threw bottles of whaling ships with the acid and throw near the stern kitoboytsev rope so that they are on the propellers.
Clashes between the participants of Sea Shepherd and Japanese whaling vessels in Antarctica occur regularly. In contrast to the "Greenpeace", Sea Shepherd admits the use of violence, activists often use chemical bombs.
In 1986, Japan joined the international moratorium on the harvesting of whales. However, the item for authorization to hunt whales for research purposes allowing whalers to circumvent the moratorium. Most of the whale meat up in restaurants and supermarkets in Japan. Every year it catches about 900 whales.