Carrey also portrays the aforementioned Heston, who is continuously mocked throughout the song for his NRA spokesman-ship.
The Nisshin Maru was certified last year before it headed off to the southern ocean for this season's controversial hunt, a spokesman for ship owner Kyodo Senpaku, said.
A spokesman said ships were known to dump oil from time to time, but it was almost impossible to detect or punish perpetrators.
"The port has modified its application in response to the concerns raised over the past 12 months, We fully appreciate that the environment in which we operate is extremely special, and we are legally bound to protect it". The spokesman added that ship-to-ship oil transfers have taken place safely in the nearby Cromarty Firth for more than 30 years.
But the spokesman said the ship's movements were unrelated to the situation in southern Lebanon.
However, Cristiano de Musso, a cruise company spokesman, said the ship had not deviated from the course it follows "52 times a year".
The Explorer sent out a distress signal after it began to take in water, a spokesman for the ship's owner said.
Clemente Cancio, a spokesman for the ship's owner, the Sunshine Marine Development Corporation, said two British experts were due to arrive in the Philippines today to assess the situation and advise on the ship's salvage and the clean-up.
Stipulating that it does not check on passengers' sexual orientation, Lawrence A. Dessler, a Holland America spokesman, said the ship was not chartered to a predominantly gay group, or any group; the situation was defused when rough weather eventually prevented the landing.
10.54am: Alison Flood has just spoken to Mikael Löfgren, spokesman for the ship Henning Mankell is on: "We haven't heard from them since 5 this morning Swedish time," Löfgren said.
A spokesman for the ship's owners, Sulpicio Lines, said the Dona Marilyn was carrying 451 passengers and 67 crew members, but it is common for the aging ferries that link the 7,000 islands of the Philippines to carry many unregistered passengers.
