On the top deck of the Esperanza we have a large freezer storage facility. At present it holds four dead common dolphins, all of which bear the telltale signs of being killed in fishing nets. The three dolphins that we found on Tuesday with their bellies slit open are in body bags. The fourth - the one that we found on Thursday in a bad state of decay - is in a stretcher style sling. They all lie on the freezer racks frozen to –10c.

It has the feeling of a mortuary when you walk in. The freezer room is large, like a big container. It was craned on to the deck for this campaign and will be taken off later.

The two previous occupants of the freezer were delivered to the French Embassy in London and then picked up by the Natural History Museum before being taken to the Institute of Zoology in London.

The dolphins we find on this tour will end up at the Institute of Zoology for an official post mortem. This is where many of the dolphins and porpoises found dead on UK beaches end up. The scientists' findings about the dolphins and their cause of death then feed into national statistics on dolphin strandings held by the Natural History Museum.

To stop this senseless slaughter please send an online fax to the EU Fisheries Commissioner Joe Borg, asking him to ban pair trawling for bass.

David, Comms logistics

Just to let you know the word about dolphin bycatch is reaching far and wide. Yesterday's paper in Bermuda had a Greenpeace photo in it (of the dead dolphins at the French embassy) with a small paragraph about the campaign ;-)

I was so pleased to see this. Though, of course not pleased at seeing the actual photo of two dead dolphins.

It must be so hard to remain positive on the ship with all those dead bodies on board but please keep up the fight. Your message is getting out there loud and clear.

Well done!

Lisa.