Six Climbers Scale Shell’s Arctic-Bound Oil Rig

Greenpeace activists rig ropes and set up camp underneath the main deck of the Polar Pioneer oil rig in the Pacific Ocean.
Six Greenpeace climbers have intercepted the Arctic-bound Shell oil rig in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 750 miles north-west of Hawaii and have scaled the 38,000 tonne platform.
Shell intends to use the rig to drill for oil in the Chukchi Sea.

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Six Climbers Scale Shell’s Arctic-Bound Oil Rig

Six Greenpeace climbers have intercepted an Arctic-bound Shell oil rig in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 750 miles north-west of Hawaii and have scaled the 38,000 tonne platform.
At dawn the six, from the USA, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden and Austria, sped towards the Polar Pioneer, which Shell intends to use to drill for oil in the Chukchi Sea, in inflatable boats launched from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza.

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Unique identifier: GP0STOY3M

Type: Image

Shoot date: 07/04/2015

Locations: Pacific Ocean

Size: 2250px × 3000px 1.29 MB

Ranking: ★★★★★★★ (A)