Greenpeace activists sit in their inflatable boat after a harpoon fired from a Japanese whaling ship narrowly missed them in the Southern Ocean January 14, 2006. Greenpeace said the harpoon had been fired directly over their boat into a Minke whale, but their boat got caught up in the rope coming from the harpoon back to the whaling vessel. One of the activists fell overboard and grabbed the rope to climb back aboard. REUTERS/Greenpeace
In this photo released by Greenpeace, a Greenpeace activist holds onto a harpoon line that was fired from the Japanese whaling ship Yushin Maru No2, right, in Antarctic seas in the Southern Ocean, Saturday, Jan. 14 2006. Japanese whalers fired a harpoon over a Greenpeace boat, throwing one of the environmental group's activists into Antarctic waters, the group said Sunday. The incident was the latest escalation in increasingly acrimonious clashes between whalers and environmentalists intent on halting Japan's annual hunt of the marine mammals. (AP Photo/Greenpeace, Kate Davison, HO)