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When I say the word greenpeace, what does that conjure up for you?

I think about the protests against like oil tankers and the really, you know, public displays of getting out there to draw media attention to some environmental issue.

Yeah, I think about people chaining themselves to, yeah, oil rigs or, you know, big fishing vessels or, you know, baby seals, you know, what have you, sort of active

individuals who are trying to protest a harm to the environment. And in each of these cases,

I've been thinking about it, it involves the ocean in some way.

And that makes sense.

You know, a majority of our planet is actually ocean.

So that could be why that there's a focus on protecting things that are.

Certainly under threat.

It's certainly under threat.

So when I was pitched a book by the captain of the famous Greenpeace ship, the Rainbow Warrior. I have to say, I was

pretty intrigued. And I wondered what it would be like to be a captain of the ship. And then I found

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