This is what the Skipper was telling me (from Sandy's article)...

Nova Scotia sealer Shane Briand said that at one point, the Mowat broke the ice up beneath a sealer as he stood on a floe.

Mr. Briand said the much larger Mowat harassed his ship and crew until a coast guard icebreaker arrived and put itself between the two ships.

The Fisheries department says that during the incident, the coast guard's Des Groseilliers icebreaker, which had been dispatched to help, was "grazed" by the Mowat, while the Sea Shepherd Society says its ship was rammed.

The ice breaker was doing the right thing when it put itself between the sealers and the Farley Mowat. The seal protesters were trying to kill seal hunters.