Page - June 23, 2005
"The real tragedy was that Fernando was the only member of the crew with children and he was the one killed by the bomb. Nothing's gonna change that."
Peter Willcox, now 51, has returned to his roots to live on the
Connecticut coast in the United States where he grew up. His father
lives nearby in the same co-operative housing area he set up in the
1950s, when it was the first multi-racial community in the state.
Like his father, he loves sailing and they both maintain modest
wooden sailboats down on the jetty by his father's house. Peter has
two teenage daughters who live with their mother in Majorca in
Spain.
He first combined his love of the sea with environmental
education after he was drafted for the war in Vietnam and
registered as a conscientious objector. He was assigned to the
Clearwater, a vessel that took school students around the coast to
learn about sailing and the environment. Then in the early 1980s he
got his first job with Greenpeace, as captain of the Rainbow Warrior. Since
the bombing, he has been a regular skipper on several Greenpeace
boats, including the new Rainbow Warrior's protest voyage against French
nuclear testing to Moruroa Atoll in 1991. Greenpeace has asked him
to skipper the Rainbow
Warrior again this year.