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How did you come to work for Greenpeace?
I came to the Greenpeace ships on March 19th 2002 to this same ship which was moored in Melbourne, Australia. Before that I worked for years for a nasty oil tanker company. The tanker I was due to join was delayed and while waiting I met by coincidence a schoolmate I hadn't seen for years who was sailing with Greenpeace. To keep it short, when the tanker company called to tell me the oil tanker had arrived I told them I wouldn't embark because I was joining a Greenpeace ship. They didn't like it.
What are you looking forward to most on this tour?
It will be wonderful to obstruct the hunting and save as many whales as we can. But what I see as much more important is to stop them permanently by boycotting their companies. There are no more citizens on this planet, we are all consumers and everything we buy everyday is voting with our money. If the shareholders find that whales are no longer profit makers then they will invest in something else, hopefully something less destructive. This is where all together we can help.

What do you love most about working on the Greenpeace ships?
I like to live in a Babel Tower where you see people from all around the globe working as a team but at the same time keeping their own culture or whatever predominant culture they have left.