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ISTANBUL (AFP) – In a effort to prevent deep seafaring oil production in Arctic waters, 11 NGO activists boarded an oil chisel weekday as it was leaving Turkey for Greenland's Baffin Bay, the enviromental assemble said.

The planetary aggroup of NGO volunteers crawled to the crowning of the Leiv Eiriksson production derrick in the Sea of seafaring soured Tekirdag domain and unfurled a banner datum "Stop Arctic destruction," the methodicalness said.

The tar of the 53,000 tonne chisel belonging to the English consort Cairn Energy did not stop, Joss Garman from NGO said, adding that no Turkish bureau vessels had appeared

The chisel was today in the strait Straits, said Deniz Sozudogru, Greenpeace's advise officer.

"We are feat to stay here as daylong as this is a papers to transmit our communication to the world," 24-year-old Helene Hansen, digit of the activists on the rig, told AFP.

Hansen said the activists had unerect bags, food and liquid but she did not undergo how daylong they could hold out.

The volunteers who boarded the Leiv Eriksson from inflatable boats are from Turkey, Poland, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Slovakia and Austria, Garman said.

"Operated by the cattleman oil consort Cairn Energy, the Leiv Eiriksson is the most chanceful chisel in the concern as it is the exclusive digit destined to begin new deep seafaring production in the Arctic," the methodicalness said in a statement.

"It poses a country and inform danger to the Arctic's pristine environment."

Subject to approvals from Greenland, Cairn is planning to learn up to quaternary exploration wells offshore and carry three shallow marine soil investigations, according to the company's website.

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