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RAINBOW WARRIOR IN NEW ZEALAND 10 July, 1985 will always be a dark day in New Zealand history. It came as a massive shock when the world of international terrorism arrived on New Zealand shores, when French secret agents bombed the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior killing photographer Fernando Pereira. New Zealand���s stance against all things nuclear has since become an entrenched part of the national psyche, and since that infamous night the name Greenpeace and New Zealand have become inextricably entwined. Each and every one of the three Rainbow Warriors have now visited the city, with some Greenpeace members going so far as to regard Auckland as Greenpeace���s spiritual home. The first Rainbow Warrior, built as the former UK Ministry of Fisheries and Food Dept trawler Sir William Hardy, now lays as an artificial reef on the bottom of Matauri Bay in Northland. The second Rainbow Warrior, built in 1957 in Yorkshire, began life as the deep sea trawler Ross Kashmir, later Grampian Fame. Following acquisition by Greenpeace she underwent lengthening from her original 44m to 55m and was converted to a sailing vessel with the addition of two masts and a gaff rig. She was relaunched in Germany on the fourth anniversary of the bombing of her predecessor and over the years has evacuated the sick from Rongelap island after French nuclear testing contaminated their island home, conducted climate change education programmes, and assisted in giving aid in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. She now serves as the hospital ship Rongdhonu with the Friendship NGO in Bangladesh. The new Greenpeace flagship which is currently on a fiveweek tour of New Zealand ports, was built in 2010 in Gdansk, Poland, before being fitted out in Bremen, Germany. Costing 22.5m Euros, the entire project was funded by donations from Greenpeace supporters and was launched in October 2011. The 58m long ship carries 1300sq m of sail on 55m high A-frame masts, and her propeller can be feathered to reduce resistance through the water while under sail. She is powered, when not under sail, by the very cleanest and most efficient diesel-electric engines available, and her advanced satellite communications system allows the sending of video, photographs, and information from anywhere on the oceans. Local New Zealand supporters donated NZ$300,000 which funded the construction of the wet room used by the ships divers, crew and campaigners, putting on lifejackets and other safety kit before boarding the ships inflatables. A wooden dolphin on Warrior���s foredeck is from her immediate predecessor Rainbow Warrior (2), while her bell is a direct connection with Rainbow Warrior (1), having been salvaged following the 1985 bombing. The bell was rung as the new Greenpeace flagship visited the resting place of the original ship in Matauri Bay in January 2013. As the Greenpeace motto goes ���You can���t sink a Rainbow.��� The Rainbow Warrior dry-docked in Lyttelton for two days during her six-week stay in New Zealand in January this year, before a trip to the Sub- Antarctic Islands. The ship was touring New Zealand to protest deep sea oil drilling, which caused problems with Port Authorities in Lyttelton, resulting in the cancellation of a scheduled trip to Southland and Bluff. ���The world���s leading inspection, verti���cation, testing and certi���cation company��� Marine Surveying, Design Approval and new Construction Survey, Cargo Surveying, Safe Ship Management, Equipment Inspection and Testing (including Radiography, Thickness and Crack Testing etc), Cranes, Lifting Equipment, Pipeline, Boilers and Pressure Vessels Design Veri���cation and Certi���cation, Water and General Laboratory Testing, Vibration and Oil Analyses. ISO 9001:2008, ISO 17925, ISO 17020:2000 NATIONAL SHIPPING OFFICE: 17 Maurice Road, Penrose 1061 PO Box 13 518 Onehunga 1643, Auckland Ph: 0800 174 025, Fax: 09 636 6054 Email: nz.auckland.industrial@sgs.com www.nz.sgs.com VIP.S85 S G S N E W Z E A L A N D LT D OFFICES IN: Auckland, Tauranga, Napier, Rotorua, New Plymouth, Wellington, Christchurch, Timaru, Invercargill, Dunedin March/April 2013 Professional Skipper 61