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 WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - A Japanese whaling ship stranded in Antarctic waters was on an even keel Saturday after pumps cleared water used to douse the fire that crippled it, a government official said.
Meanwhile, the body of a 27-year-old crewman lost in the blaze aboard the 8,000-ton Nisshin Maru on Thursday has been found, an official said Saturday as the crew continued to refuse a Greenpeace offer to tow the stricken factory ship from the ice-strewn Southern Ocean.
Kazutaka Makita's body was recovered, Japanese government-affiliated Institute of Cetacean Research spokesman Glenn Inwood said.
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