Still, the Greenpeace crew was relaxed.
Russian authorities hinted strongly on Wednesday that they would charge the Greenpeace crew with additional crimes besides piracy.
A second British member of the Greenpeace crew arrested by the Russian authorities during a protest against drilling in the Arctic has been denied bail.
In another courtroom, Roman Dolgov, a Russian citizen, said he joined the Greenpeace crew as a scientific expert and had not taken part in the demonstration.
The Greenpeace crew, having seen the long-term effects of previous nuclear testing on innocent bystanders, was determined to do its best to disrupt the French programme.
A second UK member of the Greenpeace crew arrested by the Russian authorities during a protest against drilling for oil in the Arctic has been denied bail.
Yet Russia in fact released the Greenpeace crew and its ship shortly after the case was brought; and it did show up to defend itself in a case Georgia brought against it in 2008.
Robert Kennedy Jr., an alternative-energy advocate who still opposes Cape Wind, is filmed sailing in the sound, trading bullhorn arguments with a Greenpeace crew that has come to support it.
