Caught in a net

Last night we got caught by one of the nets fishermen use. At night we're surrounded by small boats, you see lights everywhere. To catch fish they use a sort of a drift net, so you see lots of floating oil lamps. One of them apparently drifted away and got stuck in our anchor line.

We launched a boat to cut it loose, without damaging the net to much. Every net has a sort of a mark, so everybody knows whose net it is. We asked several fishermen if it was their net. We couldn't find the owners, but we succeeded in cutting it loose, so it drifted slowly away.

We're still not allowed in the Bombay harbour. So we kept on working. I had to stay awake till late, because I had a radio interview with a Dutch radio station. Around two o'clock at night I got the call. They wanted to know what it's like to work on the Rainbow Warrior, what we achieved with our campaign and what our next plans were. It was a nice interview. After this I sat for a while on deck and watched the stars and looked for fish in the water. Maybe tonight was our last night at sea. I will miss the quietness, the darkness, the stars and the waves. It all seems so peaceful out here.