News on Activists in Japan

Morning all,

I was woken up at 3am this morning by my mother phoning with news of the quake and tsunami off the coast of Japan. I currently have four friends in hard hit areas so I have been sat infront of the news channel and obsessing over facebook and CNN websites all morning.

I am on Vancouver Island so we're feeling some affects here, but it's calmed down. No longer a tsunami warning for this area. Still high winds and about six foot waves down at the beach but nothing worse than that.

Two of these friends are members here, Tarah and Marley. All of them are Cove Gaurdian activists with Sea Sheperd. News is sparse, painfully so. I received an e-mail from Marley late last night letting me know they (her, Mike, and Carisa) had arrived in the small coastal town of Otsuchi and they were heading out to film the Dalls porpoise slaughter later that day.

The quake hit while they were filming down on the beach. A video was sent out and put online by Suzanne West that put me at ease somewhat. The voices of Carisa and Marley could be heard on the video. I have been playing the first 15 seconds over and over just to hear their voices. They were in seperate cars so Marley's voice was just from over the walkie talkie, asking if she should go up the steep hills because of falling rocks...They were all heading into the hills to stay way from tsunami waves.

This video was from about 14 hours ago now and we are waiting for more news. We are all hoping that the lack of contact is only because of cell phone signals and internet connections being down.

No news yet of Tarah or Scott West. I also did not hear or see Mike in the video but can only hope that if I heard Marley that he would not be far from her.

Please donate what you can to assist them in this situation and spread the message.

Mike, Marley, and Carisa's Blog:

http://thecoveguardians.blogspot.com/

Tarah's Blog:

http://coveguardian.blogspot.com/

Sea Shepard Blog (updated yesterday, has images/video of Dall's porpoises being brought in that day)

http://www.seashepherd.org/dolphins/dalls-porpoise-slaughter-in-nor...

Keep positive everyone and I will update when I get more news!

The one good part of this natural event is that the cetaceans of the Japanese waters are temporarily safe from the molesters.

In friendship,

Adrienne

http://www.seashepherd.org/dolphins/dalls-porpoise-slaughter-in-nor...

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Comment by Adrienne D. on March 15, 2011 at 2:19am: Morning all!

More good news!

As of a few hours ago they were all resting during a layover in Korea. They should be in seattle by tonight!!!!

They managed to get a flight together so we don't need to worry about anyone getting stranded :D

Thanks everyone!

Comment by Arrow on March 14, 2011 at 2:11am: http://coveguardian.blogspot.com/2011/03/our-journey-through-tsunam...

Tarah's blog....a must read.

Comment by Adrienne D. on March 14, 2011 at 12:05am: Thank you tarah for updating us!

One more update! GOOD NEWS! They were able to get our of Tono and are now at an airport in Akita! they should be on a flight withen the next 24 hours to north america.

Such a good message to wake up to....

Comment by ednshell on March 13, 2011 at 3:23pm: Thank you for the update and pic Tarah! Sending lots of love your way!

Comment by Sultana on March 13, 2011 at 12:56pm: Oh Wow.

Thanks so much for this.

Comment by Tarah @ 40 Below Fruity on March 13, 2011 at 12:43pm: Hey everyone!!

We are in Tono, around an hour inland of Otsuchi and we are safe. The power was out here last night but returned around 10:30pm. We didn't realize it until this morning.

We're in the process of getting out of Tono. Trains are down. There are no vehicles. We are working on either getting the Military in here or a major news station with a helicopter. We are trying to go anywhere but South because the radiation is very dangerous.

We've been through hell, but we're all here and very lucky to be alive.

Thank you so much Adrienne and everyone else here on 30Bad sending your love! We will get out of Japan and arrive in North America soon.

This has been a completely life altering experience, and I will have full updates here on 30Bad as soon as I can. For now I can provide this picture, as it's the only one i've uploaded.

Comment by Adrienne D. on March 13, 2011 at 9:27am: I hope so as well, I think they're in a mor epopulated area now, so I can only assume they will have access soon. They're currently taking turns going online and taking showers while they figure out the best way to an airport. All roads out of Tono are blocked off so I've no idea what they're going to do, but will post as soon as I find out!

Comment by ednshell on March 13, 2011 at 9:20am: Hopefully they have access to iodine.

Comment by Adrienne D. on March 13, 2011 at 9:19am: Thanks...that's something I've been trying hard to avoid thinking about.

Comment by Dan B. on March 13, 2011 at 9:07am: sadly the radiation isn't going to make the rest of their lives comfortable

or the dolphins in the vicinity that they were trying to save