The world's beaches are in trouble!
Shipbreaking takes place in poor countries, where once pretty beaches in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Turkey are turned into ship graveyards. However, old ships contain hazardous substances such as asbestos, lead paint and PCBs, which are released into the environment. The Rainbow Warrior is in India to visit the shipbreaking yards. Evedien from the Netherlands is on board....
December 08, 2003
Friends of Greenpeace
While we are not allowed to leave the ship, we continue with our work. We get a lot of visitors, like school children, volunteers, journalists, supporters and friends of Greenpeace and various officials. We show them around the ship, tell them about our work and about the situation we're in right now. Everybody seems excited to be visiting the ship.
Our place in the port is a very public place. So we decided to make a banner. We agreed quickly about what it should say: "Persecuted for Exposing Environmental Crime". We want to explain to people why we're stuck here, that we're not the bad guys, we're here to help. Whatever we do on the ship, we always have an audience. This can feel a bit weird. Sometimes we have an audience consisting of more than twenty people and the only thing they do is stare at us. So when we made the banner, we had a huge audience to perform for.
Hello,
I am a Great Lakes Shipping Researcher from the US (Michigan). I was hoping you could assist me. Arriving in Alang are 2-3 ships from the Great lakes (Canadian fleet) they are the Seaway Queen, Mapleglen and Oakglen. If you photograph these ships could you send me some of these shots?
Part of my research is to document these ships until their final disposition - in this case the scrapyards of India. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. JHarris217@earthlink.net
I support your dilegence and wish you the best.