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Article: Brent Spar falls to boarding party
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 24, 1995
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BY LEONARD DOYLE
Greenpeace yesterday pledged that its campaign to prevent the
Brent Spar being dumped at sea would continue despite the fact that
Shell were back in control of the rig.
The final phase came when leader Jon Castle, 44, was forced out
of his hiding place in one of the bottom levels of the disused
Brent Spar. A team of men used hammers and chisels to cut their way
through a bulkhead to get to him.
Mr Castle was skipper of the Greenpeace vessel the Rainbow
Warrior in the mid-1980s when it was blown up by French secret
agents in Auckland harbour, in New Zealand, killing a photographer
on board.
Fears had been expressed for Mr Castle's safety yesterday
because below decks the ...