Greenpeace kayakers block Arctic-bound Shell rig

Greenpeace activists paddling in kayaks formed a blockade Monday to keep a mammoth Shell oil rig from departing from Seattle on a mission to drill in the Arctic. Dozens of boats assembled in an arc around the towering yellow and while Polar Pioneer before dawn as tug boats were preparing to embark on the slow journey north to waters off Alaska, said John Hocevar, a Greenpeace activist who was also one of the kayakers. "We are difficult to deal with," Hocevar, Greenpeace's national