Name:
Donald

Position on board:
Bosun

From:
Scotland

I have been sailing with Greenpeace for over four years. I got my first Greenpeace job because I was working commercially on a ship called the Grampian Guardian, which Greenpeace chartered and called the Amazon Guardian. When the Greenpeace people came to pick up the ship, I asked them for a job.

A few weeks later I got a call, and sailed on the MV Greenpeace. I had been trying for a while to get on board a Greenpeace ship - having made a moral decision to work for Greenpeace after being a fisherman for six years. As a fisherman, one of the techniques I used was bottom dredging, which is very bad for the ocean but I didn't think about it at the time because I had other things on my mind, like paying the rent.

I was also a diver, and there was a special reef that me and a friend used to dive at. I didn't tell anyone else about it. One day when I was working on a clam boat, we were dredging and went over the reef. It didn't occur to me at the time, but a few months later I got off the ship and went diving at the reef. I saw that it was destroyed. That's when I decided to work for Greenpeace.