25 November 2006
Marc - Boat Mechanic
From: USA/Denmark
This year marks my 20th year in Greenpeace. 20 years ago in October I started working for Greenpeace in Auckland New Zealand for the Antarctic campaigns.
My first ship was the MV Greenpeace. Ken Ballard gave me an introduction and my first tour of the ship which was docked at that time on the viaduct in downtown Auckland.
The first Rainbow Warrior was docked just beside us. Chris Robinson was cleaning her up. I found out later she was due to be scuttled in the Bay of islands, damaged beyond repair from the sabotage of the year before.
I was new to Greenpeace new to the Southern Ocean and I must say my first days at sea were not pleasant. My first voyage was to the base camp on Ross Island in Antarctica to make a re-supply and drop off the new team and retrieve the overwinterers from the year before. Leaving New Zealand we sailed into the roaring 40's with a gale blowing right on our bow. Nolan Loveridge told me I looked as Green as a Kiwi as I struggled to come right.
The first Rainbow Warrior is now an artificial reef in Matauri Bay in the North Island of New Zealand. The MV Greenpeace was donated to a group that wanted to restore her to the original tugboat. The re-supply ship Gondwana is also gone. The Antarctic Base was dismantled in the early 90's.
These days I have been crewing mainly on the Esperanza. I look after the rigid hull inflatable boats and lend a hand in the engine room. I have no plans to stop sailing for Greenpeace. It has always been a challenge and the payoff is visiting places like Baja California.
Comments
MARC!
Love those coveralls!
Hope to sail with you again :)
Mary Ann
Posted by: Mary Ann at November 28, 2006 4:55 AM
hi Marc this dilip from from , india, hope you are in good health. Prezntly i am in brussels till monday and then leave for congo to work for msf for nine months as a logistician.
thats it from my end
cheers
Dilip
Posted by: dilip at December 6, 2006 10:29 PM
Konnichiwa Marc - o-genki-desu-ka?
Good to see your face there, and wierd to be watching you from an office mid-England. Happy memories of last year in the Southern Ocean.
Hope you are not leaking oil or suffering from osmosis...ganbatte kudasai!
John-san kara
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