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Anti-nuclear boat gets warm welcome in Auckland Harbour

Anti-nuclear boat gets warm welcome in Auckland Harbour 3news 17 June 09

Auckland Harbour put on its best, to welcome the veteran of countless anti-nuclear protests.

It was not the biggest welcome, but a better one than Greenpeace boat The Vega received in Mururoa in 1973.

That was when she was rammed in international waters by a French minesweeper.

Greenpeace founder, David McTaggart, was also assaulted and arrested by French soldiers.

This morning, the welcome was much warmer.

“Oh it’s awesome… all the way… fantastic… she knew the way all the way home,” Mr Taggart says.

Vega’s skipper Daniel Mares has been with her for many years, sailing sometimes in friendly waters, and sometimes, as in Mururoa, not so friendly.

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