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Skippers' account of Nuclear Free Seas flotilla's Nuclear titanics encounter

Boats set sail from Auckland to join the flotilla that will protest British Nuclear Fuels plutonium shipment transport through the Pacific ocean. Enlarge Image

Opponents of nuclear transport set sail for rough weather and high seas vigil

What would possess a comfortably retired grandfather, a former rock musician, a chimney sweep and a tour guide to set out in small boats in some of the roughest waters in the world? What can unite the Pacific island nation of Fiji with the government of Chile and the politicians of Ireland?

Evacutaion of Rongelap Islanders to Mejato by crew Rainbow Warrior. Pacific 1985. Enlarge Image

Pacific islands continue to suffer nuclear injustice with latest plutonium transport

Pacific islands have been nuclear testing and dumping grounds for many years. Islands have been evacuated, the people plagued by birth defects and cancer. And the nuclear injustice continues even now as weapons-usable plutonium is transported through their waters despite their opposition.

Greenpeace and Nuclear Free Seas Flotilla between Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands in the Tasman Sea wait for the two armed nuclear freighters The Pacific Pintail and Pacific Teal to deliver their protest message. Enlarge Image

Day of reckoning nears in the Pacific

Eleven small boats aim to show that the people of the Pacific do not want dangerous nuclear transports putting the whole Pacific at risk

72% of the British public say no to nuclear power and yes to wind. Greenpeace projects poll result onto Sizewell nuclear plant in Suffolk, UK Enlarge Image

Nuclear Meltdown

The lid has finally been blown off the nuclear industry’s chamber of secrets. Coverups, bankruptcies and insolvencies, safety lapses and failures in plant security have been on the roll call in the last week alone. And all this as the most potent symbols of the industry's failure, two nuclear freighters, near the Irish Sea.

Jim Corr of Irish pop group the Corrs, takes the helm of a Greenpeace inflatable whilst lending his support to the nuclear-free seas flotilla. Enlarge Image

Sailing for our nuclear free future

As two British nuclear freighters near the Irish Sea with their deadly cargo of weapons-usable plutonium, a flotilla of small sailboats are getting into position to peacefully protest their passage.

Surrounded by Japanese police and coast guards Greenpeace inflatables protest beneath kites from the Mv Arctic Sunrise Enlarge Image

Pathway away from destruction

One of the most dangerous and unnecessary shipments ever to have taken place reached journey’s end on September 17th 2002 when it docked in the UK port of Barrow. The effect that this shipment’s 18,000 mile, 75-day passage, through some of the world’s heaviest seas had on the governments and peoples of en-route nations, and those who want to protect the fragile marine environment through which it sailed, could be likened to the running of a knife through an open wound.

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