5 May 2006
Bernhard - Logistics/Action Coordinator
From: Germany
How come you're working on Defending our Oceans?
I've been working for the bottom trawling campaign as logistics coordinator for the past few years. Duringthis time we've developed some interesting tools like the drop-cameras, for example, which we are using here. Also I made some of the initial contacts with the University of the Azortes in 2004 during a fisheries meeting in Horta.
What are you looking forward to most in this campaign?
Getting some images of the beautiful marine life here in the Azores and bringing them to the public together with the great team we have on the Esperanza.
How/why did you get involved with Greenpeace?
In 1992 I joined the local Greenpeace group in Kiel in Germany and volunteered there for several years as an activist. Greenpeace is one of the few organisations that really takes action and doesn't just restrict itself to PR and writing angry letters. Since 1996 I've worked regularily for Greenpeace, first on various projects and since 2004 as an Action and Logistics Coordinator for Greenpeace International.
What personal connection do you have to the ocean (if any?)
My first experiences with the ocean reach back to my childhood where we used to spend our holidays at the Mediterranean Sea. That, combined with the wish to protect what I like so much, made me and my wife Christine study marine biology. We've spent the last 12 years doing this, and also running a dive shop on the Baltic coast.
W hat made you follow your chosen profession?
Probably I"ve seen too many Jaque Cousteau films!
Anything else you'd like to say?
Mankind has already succeeded in laying waste to vast tracts of the earth's land surface. Now we"re trying to do the same to the oceans. We'd do better to first to have a look at what"s down there and try and understand it before we smash it up with huge bottom trawling nets, or dump all kinds of waste in it.
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