I have been working on the Rainbow Warrior for a coupla years now , I guess it was simply my appreciation of nature and enjoyment of the outdoors which gave me the opportunity and the motivation to be on the Rainbow Warrior.
On the Rainbow Warrior, I am volunteer deckhand, but I am also a former Frontliner for Greenpeace New Zealand and Greenpeace Asia Pacific, and have volunteered for 5 years.
Job:
Web editor - I write and solicit articles for the weblog, and upload it (with help from Hans the radio operator). Back on land, Nick, the New Zealand web editor makes any necessary tweaks... Basically, being an on board web editor is a bit like being a photojournalist - I have to write up the day's events, and use photographs, either Malcolm's (photographer) or my own, and get the whole thing published via a satellite connection. It's a pretty strange job - I have to know as much as possible about all that happens on the Rainbow Warrior, and convey it to the outside world.
Job:
On the ship, I'm working as a deckhand... In my "normal life" I used to run four shops in Brazil - I did that for seven years but I wasn't happy anymore. So, I sold my business, took out my savings and ran away to New Zealand to spend a year away from my country and try to find my own way... what I really want to do with my life.
What other jobs have you done?
I have been a sailor since 1972. I first worked on the sloop Clearwater in New York, doing environmental education. I joined the Rainbow Warrior in 1981, when she came to the US.
Job:
I'm working as a communications officer on board - I write press releases and other materials, and work with the videographer, photographer and campaigner to make sure what happens out on the water gets back to the team at home and out to the rest of the world.
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On the Rainbow Warrior I am the Video Cameraman. And at home (which is in Adelaide, South Australia), I do the same thing. I own a small company freelancing for most of the television broadcasters.
Job: On the ship - radio operator. In 'normal life' software/radio engineering research and development for Greenpeace. I've also been a merchant marine radio operator, software engineer for a Dutch press agency, and have done logistics for Medicins Sans Frontieres
Kia ora. Just like last year, I'm the lead oceans campaigner on the Rainbow
Warrior's return trip campaigning on high seas bottom trawling. My career
with Greenpeace began many moons ago, when I was a member of Greenteam, an
environmental youth network set up by Greenpeace to teach New Zealanders
about campaigning. Ten years later, I have been lucky enough to work in a
range of roles in different countries. I have been an action logistics
coordinator with Greenpeace in Australia, New Zealand, India, South Pacific
and a toxics campaigner in Australia and New Zealand.
