DARYL HANNAH - MERMAID ACTRESS JOINS WHALE CRUSADE

MERMAID ACTRESS JOINS WHALE CRUSADE

Hollywood actress DARYL HANNAH is joining the fight against Japan's whale hunters.
The star, who made her name playing a mermaid in hit 1984 film Splash, will travel on board an anti-whaling group ship to confront Japan's whalers in the Antarctic.
Dozens of Japanese fishermen have been criticised for exploiting a controversial loophole in a 1986 whaling ban that allows "lethal research" to kill up to 1,000 whales every summer.
And Hannah is set to challenge them face-to-face when she joins the crew aboard the Sea Shepherd's flagship vessel the Steve Irwin, named after the late Crocodile Hunter star.
The ship is due to set sail from Brisbane, Australia on December 1 (08).