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ISTANBUL (AFP) – In a effort to prevent unfathomable 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 international team of NGO volunteers crawled to the top of the Leiv Eiriksson production derrick in the Sea of Marmara off Tekirdag province and unfurled a flag reading "Stop Arctic destruction," the methodicalness said.

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

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

"We are going to meet here as daylong as this is a platform to communicate 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 know 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 dangerous chisel in the concern as it is the only digit destined to begin new unfathomable 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 thinking to learn up to quaternary exploration wells offshore and conduct three shallow marine grime investigations, according to the company's website.

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