Rijnborg Dumping Action

The damaged inflatable is heaved aboard the Sirius. Two barrels were dropped from the dumpship Rijnborg on top of the Greenpeace inflatable, during its protests against the dumping of nuclear waste by the dumpship, causing it to capsize and seriously injure Willem Groenier, the pilot of the inflatable.

Unique identifier: GP01DR2

Type: Image

Shoot date: 06/09/1982

Locations: North Atlantic Ocean

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Pierre Gleizes

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Rijnborg Nuclear Waste Dumping Actions in North Atlantic

Greenpeace actions with the MY Sirius and Cedarlea protesting against the dumping of nuclear waste in the Atlantic by the ship RIJNBORG dumping its 7000 ton cargo of nuclear waste.

(Shots include activities on different days. In the first activity Gijs Thieme is knocked out of the Greenpeace inflatable by the splash of a barrel from the dumpship, and in the process injures his head on the engine of the inflatable. In the second activity a barrel is dumped onto the Greenpeace inflatable being driven by activist Willem Groenier.)

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