http://www.greenpeace.org/~comms/brent/jun22d.html (Einblicke ins Internet, 10/1995)From: Crew of the Greenpeace vessel Altair tracking the Brent Spar
Date: Thursday 22nd June
Brent Spar lunchtime update, 1200 hours BST, 22 June 1995
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Position now 59 deg 59 North, 07 deg 14 West. Heading is 131 degrees. Average speed is 2 knots, current speed is 2 knots. Wind is south south westerly, force 5. We are 95 n miles from the Butt of Lewis at 341 degrees.
We (Altair) arrive in Lerwick at 4 pm on Friday and apparently there is a welcome party organised with all the people in Shetland who have helped us. We are all looking forward to celebrate this first stage of victory and to get back on to land!
There is an important Oslo and Paris Commission meeting (OSPAR) next week from 26 - 30 June. They will be discussing, amongst other measures to prevent marine pollution, a ban on the dumping of oil installations at sea. They meet every year and this year it could not have come at a better time with so much international public and governmental support to ban the dumping of offshore installations into our seas.
The struggle to save our seas and our environment continues......
From the crew on the Altair.
