In the fall of 1990, correspondent Tom Wilmer spent time on the Rainbow Warrior II while the vessel and crew had been in the midst of an environmental consciousness marketing campaign in British Columbia.
Again in 1985 the French Intelligence Service bombed the Greeneace flagship vessel Rainbow Warrior in the port of Aukland, New Zealand. Straight away Greenpeace sourced a replacement vessel and in July 1989 a former the a few-masted schooner, deep-sea fishing vessel was rechristened as the Rainbow Warrior II in Hamburg, Germany.
Fast ahead in time—the Rainbow Warrior II was marketed in 2011, replaced by the Rainbow Warrior III which entered support in October 2011. The Rainbow Warrior II was eventually scrapped on a Bangladesh beach front in 2018.
In celebration of the 31st anniversary of Tom Wilmer’s journey display broadcasts airing around NPR affiliate KCBX, and Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer podcasts, we travel again in time to the tumble of 1990 and re-share the Rainbow Warrior display as a Finest-of-the Most effective broadcast from the archival vault. The exhibit was initially recorded on a cassette tape, so remember to forgive the degradation of the audio high quality.
Underwriting guidance for Journeys of Discovery supplied by Nashville’s Significant Again Yard economic initiative focused on rural communities in the southwest quarter of Tennessee and the Shoals Area of Northern Alabama.
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