2 March 2006
Getting Warmer
by Dave, web editor on board the Esperanza
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As we move towards the fishing grounds, the crew of 31 are busy with work and training. We've been doing fire drills and fitting on survival suits, and we've begun our boat training. Adam, our scientist from the Greenpeace Science Unit, has been coordinating tests of the marine debris sampler - a device that tracks the amount of plastic that's floating around the world's oceans - more on that later. Elsewhere on board, the decks reverberate to the sound of rust-removing needle-guns.
Down below, Miguel and Celeste, our cooks, are turning out exemplary dishes, while in the campaign office, we're battering away on our laptop keyboards - still slightly in awe of the 'always on' Internet satellite broadband access that the Esperanza now has.
- Dave
Survival suit training
© Greenpeace/Gleizes
Launching the marine debris sampler
© Greenpeace/Walsh
Testing the marine debris sampler
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Practicing launching the African Queen inflatable
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Comments
so, anyone shoot at ye yet?
Posted by: damien at March 3, 2006 5:29 PM
Shoot at us? Hardly, there's no one here but us. We've just left Cape Town, heading towards the tuna fishing grounds. Very few other ships around.
Posted by: Dave - Webbie on the Esperanza at March 3, 2006 7:47 PM
You greenpeace guys are amazing..keep up the good work! :)
Posted by: Natalie at March 4, 2006 12:30 PM
Dear Dave,
I think the world of you, and wish you all success. You are the true heroes of our age, you know.
Please tell Greenpeace, and Canada's principal newspaper the Globe and Mail, what you have to say regarding a serious ethical issue here in the Northwest Atlantic: the hunting of young harp seals. Many Canadians apparently believe that there is nothing inhumane about the way these seals are killed, and that there is nothing destructive to the ecosystem that tens of thousands of them should be killed in a season. At the same time, fishermen in Newfoundland are very poor, and desperately need a livelihood. No good ideas to help them, apparently, have been conceived.
My hope is that Greenpeace will be able to give attention to both of these important ethical issues.
Meanwhile, hang in there, I love you.
Posted by: Caniscandida at March 4, 2006 1:25 PM
Hi Canis - Greenpeace know all about the harp seal issue - and have been campaigning on the issue since the 1970s.
Posted by: Dave - Webbie on the Esperanza at March 4, 2006 5:05 PM
You guys all look so HOT in those survival suits!
All the best for this leg of the journey! Hope that you guys annoy the pirates as much as the others annoyed the whalers!
Keep up the web logs! I read them everyday and it makes me feel like I'm out there with you (deep down I wish I was)...
Take Care!
Posted by: Heidi at March 4, 2006 10:31 PM
It certainly was *hot* in those suits!
Posted by: Dave - Webbie on the Esperanza at March 5, 2006 9:31 PM
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