To Poovaana A Upa, who spend many years in French prison for speaking out against the tests and calling for independence.

To Oscar Temaru, who worked with Greenpeace many years to stop the tests and is now President of (French) Polynesia. He gives a glimmer of hope that the truth of the health effects on Tahitians, who were exposed to the radiation and had to do the cleanup on Moruroa whenever there was an accident, will finally come out.

To Rongelap and John and Jeton Anjain, whose atoll was devastated by thermo nuclear tests and left a long legacy of wasted lives

To Fernando, who went down with the Warrior, and his children who have to live without their father.

To Bob Hunter, who started it all back in Amchitka, the US nuclear test site.

To David McTaggart, who held it all together and brought Moruroa in the spotlight to the world.

To Elaine Shaw and Betty Johnston, who never gave up.

To Barry Mitcalfe who led the Fri on her way to Moruroa.

To General Paris de la Bolladier, who had the nerve to speak against the tests as a French general.

To the old Warrior herself, which never died and continues to provide life and inspiration 20 metres under the surface of Matauri Bay.

Tomorrow we will be on the spot and honour the ship which stood for so many issues.

It is like a daughter (this Rainbow Warrior), which visits her mother (the old Warrior) to get a dose of strength and inspiration to continue and rid this world from nuclear weapons, to get justice for the thousands of people who paid the price for the Nuclear Weapon States to have the bomb.

Nuclear weapons are the ultimate weapon of terror and a crime against humanity. In today's war on terror we have to unite and get rid of them. And we will.

- Martini Gotje, from Holland, first mate on board the Rainbow Warrior in 1985.