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。

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The group today sent its helicopter out to search for Japan's whale processing ship, while other Sea Shepherd members were frantically removing fuel and other pollutants from the sinking Ady Gil.

“海洋守护者”组织今天派出了直升机前去搜寻日本的捕鲸加工船，其他“海洋守护者”成员正疯狂地将被撞沉的“艾迪吉尔号”上的燃料和其他污染物清除掉。

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

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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.

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"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."

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