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I've been involved with Greenpeace since 1978, and helped convert the Sir William Hardy which became the Rainbow Warrior, and sailed on her first voyage. I also became Captain on that voyage. She was the first ship that we had in Europe and she eventually came to a violent and untimely end on the bottom of Auckland harbour.


The first campaign I ever did was against the building of Torness Nuclear Power Station in Scotland and from there we went to Iceland and an anti-whaling campaign. My last campaign was about oil transportation and pirate fishing in the Barents Sea.


I've been involved with many campaigns over the years. The environmental abuses which Greenpeace challenges and takes action over, have taken me into all the world's oceans and a good many of the countries bordering them. I've worked on Campaigns from Antarctica to the Arctic, in the Amazon and other rivers and ports and coastal waters throughout the world.



In between times I have worked on commercial ships and I studied to get my professional qualification, which used to be called Master Mariner and is now known as "Master: Limitations Applying - None", which doesn't have quite the same ring to it.



Defending Our Oceans is an exciting and innovative Campaign.



- Pete

Hey Pete, do you post your daily positions somewhere so I can plot your course relative to Maud Fontenoy on planetsea.com ? a kml file would be good ...

Merry Christmas & Happy Chanukah to you & the crew on Esperanza ... Robert

Hi All Crew,
Im thinking of you all on the high seas.Ask the cook to make raspberry jam sammies for everyone.They taste the same going down as they do coming up.Hope all is well.
Regards
Larry Mercer.