After the catastrophic explosion of the shuttle orbiter Columbia in 2003 and the consequent temporary grounding of the shuttle fleet, activity aboard the ISS was reduced virtually to a caretaker level, while Soyuz spacecraft provided the sole means for station crew exchanges.
Australia's attorney general, Robert McClelland, said direct interference in the fleet's activities would inflame and already volatile situation.
Bob Brown, a former Greens leader who now chairs Sea Shepherd's Australian chapter, said the environment minister, Greg Hunt, had promised in May to send a customs ship to monitor the fleet's activities.
The ambulance fleet's activity during the time period 2004 2008 was analysed.
The air ambulance fleet's activity according to the electronic patient record database of "Luftambulansetjenesten ANS" (LABAS) was analysed.
The air ambulance fleet's activity is prospectively registered in the electronic patient record (EPR) system of the Luftambulansetjenesten ANS (LABAS) (http://www.luftambulanse.no) by the medical crew (nurse or medical doctor).
She spent 1941 and early 1942 attempting to attack British convoys to Malta, but crippling fuel shortages in the Italian fleet curtailed activity thereafter.
These small-scale fleets and their activities are hard to define clearly, and even harder to manage and monitor.
After their modernization, both ships participated in the normal activities of the fleet, including fleet problem exercises, and then joined the entire Pacific Fleet in their new base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, after the beginning of the Second World War in Europe.
Indeed, KLM and Alitalia, the core players in an alliance that also includes Northwest, have already decided to merge their fleet planning and purchasing activities.
Greenpeace, too, disapproves of Sea Shepherd's methods and reportedly refused to share information about the whaling fleet's location or activities.
