MOSCOW, November 20 (RAPSI) - Arctic Sunrise ship's captain Peter Wilcox detained in Russia over an Arctic drilling protest has been released on bail, Greenpeace reported Wednesday.

Earlier, Tomasz Dziemianczuk (Poland), Miguel Hernan Perez Orzi and Camila Speziale (Argentina), David John Haussmann (New Zealand) Ana Paula Alminhana Maciel (Brazil),Greenpeace's press office chief Andrei Allakhverdov, Paul Ruzycki (Canada), Sini Saarela (Finland) and Faiza Oulahsen (the Netherlands) were also released on bail.

On Monday, a ship medic Yekaterina Zaspa and photographer Denis Sinyakov were freed on bail of 2 million rubles ($61,414). Furthermore, the detention of the Australian Greenpeace activist Colin Russell was extended for 3 months. The defense of Russell will appeal the decision.

The Arctic Sunrise ship was seized by Russian border guards on September 19 in international waters, within Russia's exclusive economic zone, a day after two Greenpeace activists scaled the Prirazlomnaya drilling rig in the Pechora Sea, the southeastern part of the Barents Sea.

The platform, owned by Gazprom Neft Shelf, a subsidiary of Russian energy giant Gazprom, is the first ice-resistant stationary oil platform in the world set to produce offshore Arctic oil.

Greenpeace and other environmental groups oppose drilling for oil in the Arctic because they say that it is currently impossible to sufficiently clean up potential oil spills in the region, and that such drilling cannot be economically viable.