New faces on board

Since we're in port some of the crew are having a well-deserved night
off.

There have been some changes in the faces onboard (again). Today we're
oined by a press officer, Louise, from the UK office, and Richard, a
Greenpeace International campaigner. With them is John Burton, a
British ex-whaler who now works with Greenpeace occasionally to help
convince people that whaling is something that we should all leave in
the past.

John is quite inspiring. I met him for the first time today - although I
have heard much about him in my time in Greenpeace.

It sounds like perfect PR, but John was first sparked to thinking about
the whaling 'issue' whilst watching footage of Greenpeace activists
confronting a whaling ship. Those images, together with countless others
of whales from TV documentaries, helped make him change his mind.

-- Willie