Victor Acton Pickering on Arctic Sunrise

Deckhand, Victor Acton Pickering at work aboard the Arctic Sunrise during transit to her home port of Amsterdam following her departure from Murmansk. The Greenpeace ship was detained in the Russian port city for over 300 days following a high profile protest against Arctic oil drilling in September 2013.

Unique identifier: GP0STOI6X

Type: Image

Shoot date: 04/08/2014

Locations: Europe

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Ana Carla Martinez

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Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Arctic Sunrise Departs Murmansk en route to Amsterdam

The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise departs from Murmansk, Russia. Captain Daniel Rizzotti and other Greenpeace crew gained access to the Arctic Sunrise on June 27th, finding that after more than nine months without maintenance, the ship must undergo considerable work to make it seaworthy for its departure from Murmansk, and its return to Amsterdam. On September 18th 2013, the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise was involved in a peaceful protest at Gazprom’s Prirazlomnaya platform, later, armed Russian agents boarded the ship and seized the crew at gunpoint. The "Arctic 30" (28 crew members of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise and 2 freelance journalists) were detained on September 19th by Russian Security forces charged with both piracy and hooliganism. They were allowed to return home after 3 months of detention in Russia.

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