Greenpeace 'takes sub way' off Alaska

Dive, dive: one of the Greenpeace submarines to be deployed off Alaska

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By Steve Marshall and news reports

 11 June 2012 09:45 GMT

Greenpeace is well known for high-visibility tactics in its efforts to disrupt Arctic drilling, but the environmental group is reported to be changing tack by taking its latest campaign against Shell below the surface.

Activists intend to surreptitiously track Shell’s upcoming drilling effort in Alaskan waters using two submarines – a two-person and one-person craft - that will be deployed in the Chukchi Sea, according to CNN.

The Anglo-Dutch supermajor is waiting for the last batch of drilling permits, expected imminently, before mobilising the ice-class drilling barge Kulluk and drillship Noble Discoverer that are currently moored at a staging area in Seattle harbour.

Shell aims to tap a pair of known discoveries, Burger in the Chukchi Sea and Sivulliq in the Beaufort Sea, in the drilling campaign…

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