The September 14, 1981, fourteen brave left the port of Ribeira to show to the world the existence

The September 14, 1981, fourteen brave left the port of Ribeira to show to the world the existence of a cemetery underground radioactive located 250 miles northwest of Finisterre. Three decades later, Rivas, Gonzalo Vazquez Well, Manolo Mendez, José Castro and Angel Vila recall pattern for GH cruise that was a first brake to the atomic peril
"We saw the name of Galicia stick blender and all people who want a peaceful life. The Atlantic is a source of life and wealth. The Atlantic is a sign of identity for Galicia and for many other peoples. The Atlantic should stick blender be a symbol of life and not death. " With this message sent in the middle of the ocean, the September 17, 1981 Europe knew of the existence of a cemetery stick blender of nuclear waste to only 300 miles (about five hundred stick blender kilometers) northwest of the Finisterre. Three days earlier, fourteen brave aboard a longliner wood only 22 meters long part of Ribeira course the unknown with a single objective: to demonstrate that the illegal discharge stick blender of garbage was atomic poison our waters.
In Galicia, which had just come out of the Franco regime, with a Constitution adopted a few years, the attempt of the coup in the retina and a life in hiding still active, the ecological association Greenpeace warned of the existence of radioactive discharges just a few miles off the coast of Galicia . After crossing half of Europe by train, the residues of the central core of countries stick blender such as Belgium, Holland and Germany moved into the large merchant called casting Atlantic, where they were thrown to the sea within a few drums of 200 liters stick blender without the knowledge stick blender of citizenship. The intention stick blender was to organize Greenpeace expedition to an area on board the Sirius with the aim of demonstrating the existence of dumping, stick blender they asked for the collaboration of. The alert was collected by members of the Left party Galicia, which promoted the region's municipalities in a number of initiatives conviction, as well as to support the journey. "At that time, that there was no interest or the political class was not sensitized to these problems," recalls stick blender Gonzalo Vazquez Well, the current chairman of the editorial board of the magazine Eco, which then exerted of deputy mayor in Corunna. Far from giving up, from the Galician Left decided to promote themselves traveling. stick blender But the thing would not be easy. The same indeferenza and rejection found among the political class would settle in different ports and comfrey visited. It would be in the middle of longer utter despair when one of the characters appear key of this trip: the boss Angel Villa who, along with his crew of trust-a sailor, the cook and machines, offers cause the boat to become not symbol of the struggle: the Xurelo. "Villa is a wonderful guy, like the captain who travels to the heart of darkness, Conrad," the writer and journalist Rivas, recalling that with only a compass stick blender and a small radar barely eight miles away, Villa was able to put towards a zone and inaccurate to find both freighters dumped wastes the sea.
The journey had begun struggling with problems to take control charts, stick blender order by Naval Command to return to port for not having authorization and communication Greenpeace that Sirius could not leave port. "The only hope ye", told through a telegram responsible environmentalist, Remi Parmentier. The managements made ashore by other militants Galician Earth Camilo Nogueira or Carlos Vazquez allowed horse mackerel head for casting stick blender Atlantic with a crew total of fourteen people: the boss and three sailors; a delegation of Galician Earth formed by the deputy mayor of Vigo, Paco Garcia; A Coruña, Gonzalo Vazquez Pozo; and Moana, stick blender Manolo Mendez; and several journalists and photographers like Manuel Rivas, George Lobato, Gallego, José Castro and Jesus Naya; and environmentalists: the now university professors Enrique Alvarez the Galician Society of Natural History and Roxelio Perez Moreira, the Collective Nature.
"Living on the boat was extraordinary, although there were moments that we spend very badly," recalls photographer La Voz de Galicia, José Castro, stick blender who took the pictures that accompany this report. The instability of small ship at sea and the immense difficulties to reach a zone that just had inaccurate coordinates accompanied the crew for three days when Villa took the reins of the operation. "I remember vividly the angel on top of the charts, drawing concentric circles with a pencil. He never said, but there was a time when we were about to leave and was the patron who assumed the mission with more enthusiasm and professionalism," stick blender says Rivas. The same feeling survives in the memory of the master Manolo Mendez, who boasts the courage to Villa: "He said that would not by