While the six-person crew aboard the Ady Gil was rescued, tragedy wasonly narrowly averted.

所幸“阿迪·戈尔”号上的六名船员均得以获救，一场悲剧险些上演。

youdao

A spokesman for the Japanese whaling fleet earlier accused the Sea Shepherd group of using the Ady Gil to attack its vessels.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society says one of its boats,the Ady Gil, a sleek high-technology speed boat, was rammed and sliced in half by a Japanese ship,the Shonan Maru.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

"The Ady Gil then put out a distress signal, a mayday signal, which was ignored and not acknowledged by the Japanese and then they sped away from the scene of this incident."

VOA: standard.2010.01.06