http://weblog.greenpeace.org/northatlantic/ en-us 2004-11-22T19:20:09+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/northatlantic/2004/001839.html (C) Greenpeace Sorry for the delay in posting this entry - the campaign is at an end now at end, following Karen's address to the UN General Assembly. But let me tell you what happened in Vigo, Galicia...] Wednesday, November... Dave 2004-11-22T19:20:09+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/northatlantic/2004/001836.html They must be withering away with boredom up there Dave 2004-11-18T16:00:06+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/northatlantic/2004/001835.html The other morning I was on the 4 till 8 watch, and thinking about the Northern Lights. Above the horizon, hints of pink and red were beginning to appear from a dark cloud. The colours turned to a deep red... Dave 2004-11-17T18:40:07+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/northatlantic/2004/001834.html (C) Greenpeace [We were about to publish Mir's weblog on the day that we tracked down the bottom trawler Anuva - so it got delayed until now!] Life on board the Esperanza is actually very simple, most of the time.... Dave 2004-11-16T19:40:20+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/northatlantic/2004/001833.html (C) Greenpeace We have been on this campaign for over a month now, hunting bottom trawlers who trawl on the Atlantic ridge and destroy small but important ecosystems and the animals living there. My job is primarily based on board... Dave 2004-11-16T19:40:15+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/northatlantic/2004/001832.html Dave 2004-11-16T19:40:07+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/northatlantic/2004/001830.html (C) Greenpeace I finished the last posting with news that Action Dave had suggested something... He appeared in the campaign office I was writing the weblog and asked 'Fancy boarding the bottom trawler?' 'Sure, why not?', I replied...... Dave 2004-11-13T21:40:07+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/northatlantic/2004/001828.html (C) Greenpeace It's 10pm, in the middle of the North Atlantic. I'm sitting in the Campaign office, just behind the bridge of the Esperanza, still wrapped in layers of thermal gear, as I've just spent six hours out in the... Dave 2004-11-12T23:00:08+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/northatlantic/2004/001825.html She's a walking encyclopedia. Dave 2004-11-11T08:20:10+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/northatlantic/2004/001824.html Maaike was joking that she was happy with a force 7 gale Dave 2004-11-11T08:20:05+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/northatlantic/2004/001823.html The waves are huge, lumbering grey monsters, streaked with white. Dave 2004-11-09T19:40:08+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/northatlantic/2004/001822.html "Hang a potato round your neck" Dave 2004-11-09T19:40:05+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/northatlantic/2004/001820.html Every time one of these trawlers haul their nets, it is not only commercial species that come to the surface. Dave 2004-11-06T14:40:08+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/northatlantic/2004/001819.html Some of us have learned to sleep in the corner of an inflatable. Dave 2004-11-06T14:40:04+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/northatlantic/2004/001816.html Even when the pilot boat approaches, it seems to materialise from the chilly murk. Dave 2004-11-05T08:40:10+00:00