Climate activists have spent a second night on board an oil support ship in Timaru.
The Skandi Atlantic has been occupied since early Sunday.
Police removed eight protestors on Monday.
The activists want to stop OMV from drilling three oil wells in the Great South Basin off the Otago coast and the Taranaki coast next month.
Rosemary Penwarden speaks to Corin Dann from the protest on board the boat.