article_snippet.sent: occupy the underside of the main deck of the Polar Pioneer, .
article_snippet.sent: At dawn on Monday, the six, from the USA, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden and Austria, sped towards the Polar Pioneer in inflatable boats launched from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza .
article_snippet.sent: one of the six to board the Blue Marlin, the ship carrying rig in the Pacific Ocean bound for the Arctic on Monday in a . protest against Arctic drilling, said in the statement. '
article_snippet.sent: Long haul: The activists used ropes and climbing equipment to scale the 38,000-tonne platform .
article_snippet.sent: climbing gear to move from an inflatable boat onto the Blue .
article_snippet.sent: Marlin heavy-lift vessel towing the Pioneer, one of two drill .
article_snippet.sent: rigs heading to the region, as it cruised some 750 miles (1,207 . km) northwest of Hawaii.
article_snippet.sent: The six -- from the United States, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden and Austria -- have supplies for several days and can communicate with the outside world, Greenpeace said. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Shell said in a statement Shell team would occupy the underside of the main deck of the Polar Pioneer .
  