Greenpeace activists onboard the Mermaid Searcher with banner that reads "RISE UP END OIL". Greenpeace activists boarded the support vessel of the world’s largest seismic blasting ship this and locked themselves to it.

The Mermaid Searcher was in the Port of Taranaki to collect resupplies for the Amazon Warrior, a Schlumberger-owned 125-metre long ship, which was in New Zealand on behalf of Austrian oil giant, OMV.