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Hi - my name is Frank and I am the new Captain of the ship. Not that it is my first trip on the Esperanza, but it always exciting to get back to her, especially when the ship is doing a year long ocean campaign, which is my favorite issue to work on.

I am from the Netherlands and first went to sea as a ship's boy when I was 17 years old to see what it was like - I've been sailing ever since. I came to Greenpeace having had direct experience of the oil industry - towing oil rigs from Borneo to the Nigerian river delta and bringing flareblooms to oil rigs in the North Sea. I've now worked on numerous Greenpeace campaigns around the world; from climate campaign work in the Arctic Ocean, to surveying the Persian Gulf after the "oil war" in Kuwait, and anti-whaling work in the Southern Oceans.

- Frank