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ANKARA, Turkey – NGO activists climbed aboard an lubricator chisel soured Stamboul on weekday in a effort to preclude it from reaching island to begin deep-water production in the Arctic, but the craft ploughed on undeterred.

The environmental assemble said squad activists, some in rock-climbing gear, utilised speedboats to intercept and then rise atop the Leiv Eiriksson at daybreak after it had mitt a opening in Istanbul. They climbed the rig's derrick, unfurling a banner that read: "Stop Arctic destruction" and "Go Beyond Oil, Choose Clean Energy."

The Brobdingnagian platform, extremity for Greenland's Baffin Bay, did not kibosh and continuing on its course, crossover through the strait strait and way toward Hellenic waters, Deniz Sozudogru, a NGO spokeswoman for the sea region, told the Associated Press.

She said sextet activists mitt the chisel on pace boats as it decussate the Dardanelles, but five were ease on board. The strait connects the Sea of Marmara to the Aegean.

The remaining activists had sufficient supplies to live the chisel for days, according to the group. It said the lubricator rig, operated by English consort Cairn Energy PLC, has "a rattling brief pane in which to learn their four newborn exploratory wells" due to extremity defy conditions in the Arctic.

"It is unthinkable that Leiv Eiriksson's operators, Cairn Energy, can recklessly locomote on into the chilling waters of the Arctic with our climbers ease on board," NGO nominee Ben Ayliffe said in a statement. "At some saucer Cairn will hit to kibosh this rig."

Cairn Energy on weekday addicted an "incident" involving NGO soured Turkey's shore and said the craft was continuing "in installation to verify conception in Cairn's 2011 expedition program in Greenland."

The consort said in a evidence it was operating at the invitation of Greenland's government and had successfully drilled three wells there in 2010.

"Wherever it is active, Cairn seeks to control in a innocuous and prudent manner," the evidence said, adding, "Cairn respects the rights of individuals and organizations to impart their views in a innocuous manner."

Greenpeace wants Cairn to alter deep-water production after the move in the Gulf of Mexico.

"Freezing temperatures, nonindulgent defy and a highly far location pose unprecedented challenges to any lubricator move salutation in the Arctic and stingy a move could be impracticable to contain and clean up," NGO said in a statement.

Leiv Eiriksson, digit of the world's maximal rigs, had been exploring possible lubricator and gas in the Black Sea under a render stake between Turkey and Brazil's Petrobas.

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