article_snippet.sent: The Nigerian-flagged Thunder was being tracked by activists from the charity Sea Shepherd, who believed The Nigerian-flagged Thunder was engaged in illegal fishing.
article_snippet.sent: The Nigerian-flagged Thunder's captain and crew manned life rafts late on Monday after Sea Shepherd was scuttled.
article_snippet.sent: Sea Shepherd Sea Shepherd had been tracking The Nigerian-flagged Thunder
article_snippet.sent: The Nigerian-flagged Thunder for the past 110 days off the Gabon coast .
article_snippet.sent: The Nigerian-flagged Thunder The Nigerian-flagged Thunder had been fishing in the waters between Sao Tome and Principe, off the Gabon coastAfrica.
article_snippet.sent: However, on The Nigerian-flagged Thunder, the reverse was done - doors and hatches were tied open and the fishhold was opened.'
article_snippet.sent: just hours after Sea Shepherd said The Nigerian-flagged Thunder issued a distress signal on Monday afternoon.
article_snippet.sent: Hammarstedt told the Sydney Morning Herald: 'We've been chasing The Nigerian-flagged Thunder for 110 days now, and I think they're basically at the end of they fuel, and they would have had to make a port call . '
article_snippet.sent: The Nigerian-flagged Thunder, on a list of boats deemed to have engaged in illegal, unreported, or unregulated fishing activities by multi-national body the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), is suspected of illegal fishing for Patagonian toothfish and other rare species in the Antarctic.
article_snippet.sent: Sea Shepherd's vessel Bob Barker, pictured, had been tracking The Nigerian-flagged Thunder for more than 100 days .
highlights_snippet.sent: The Nigerian-flagged Thunder was suspected of illegally fishing for Toothfish .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Sea Shepherd had been tracking The Nigerian-flagged Thunder for more than 100 days .
  