Greenpeace swimmers block drill ship

[G_j]

Source: STV

Greenpeace swimmers block drill ship

Activists launch new attempt to halt oil operation off Shetland after court order ended earlier action.

26 September 2010 14:49 GMT

Greenpeace said campaigners wearing drysuits dived into the North Sea one day after legal threats put an end to earlier action at the Stenna Carron.

The group of four left Greenpeace's Esperanza ship at 1.30pm by inflatable speedboat and got into the water about 100 miles north of Shetland, "halting" their target's journey.

The protest organisation released a statement from one of the swimmers, Ben Stewart.

He said: "That oil drill ship is the size of a skyscraper on its side and as it cut through the water towards us I felt really scared, it's like nothing I've ever done, but we are determined to stop it reaching its deepwater drilling site.

"We need to go beyond oil, we need our politicians to stop ships like this from threatening our pristine coastlines and the global climate."

Activists had spent four days in a "survival pod" dangling off the vessel's anchor to stop it drilling a well.

Read more: http://news.stv.tv/scotland/highlands-islands/199561-greenpeace-swimmers-block-drill-ship/

[earcandle]

1. YOu guys have a lot of courage given the lack of integrity of these bastards. Remember they rolled

over Rachael in Israel.  May the force of visibility and honor
be with you all. And thank you for your stand.

Think we can match that kind of energy in our political
system? 

[petronius]

2. That's pretty bold. The stopping/turning distance of a ship like that must be incredibly long;

you'd need to be very sure of your timing and your communication with the oncoming ship. The anchor-chain squatting is pretty clever...

[PatrynXX]

3. Usually Greenpeace isn't that actionable.

Maybe Sea Shepherd is getting on their nerves. Greenpeace use to do this sort of stuff. They've been kinda sleeping for the last decade and not everything works thru diplomacy. Some of it does. Greenpeace doesn't seem to have a PR wing Sea Shepherd clearly does. When the oil spill happened and the animals turned black in muck. I didn't think what Greenpeace was going to do. I thought what would Sea Shepherd do. I much prefer what they do on Whale Wars. Would I ever work on a boat like that? Don't know. Not sure if I want a camera in my face all the time. I'd also rather be helping down below. Clean stuff up keep stuff running. Although certainly love the geek in the latter of season 1.

Hope Apple doesn't sue Greenpeace for using Survival POD. They're suing someone else with a video projector with the word pod in it.

Paul Watson isn't ELF stupid. He's like somewhere between Greenpeace and ELF. (ALF is worse)

ELF is stupid now and then. ELF would be the polar Opposite of the Tea Party. Disorganized and sometimes stupid. Lets go burn some Hummers. Nevermind the extra pollution that caused. Although the one page I found years ago on the proper way to burn down a building was kinda shocking. And I'm not repeating it here either. No hints. Makes sense yes but if others have run across it fine. I'm not repeating it except to family.