Ship - Greenpeace - Esperanza in ice in Southern Ocean - postcard c.2000s

• Postcard

   

• Picture / Image:  The Greenpeace Ship 'Esperanza' on route towards Antarctica theough the icy Southern Ocean
• Publisher: Greenpeace
• Postally used: yes
• Stamp:  1st class Machin
• Postmark(s): Gatwick 2012
• Sent to:  St. Anne's on Sea, Lancashire
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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MV Esperanza is a ship operated by Greenpeace. Previous to being a Greenpeace ship it was a fire-fighter owned by the Soviet Navy, built in 1984. It was recommissioned in 2000 and launched in 2002 after being named Esperanza ('hope' in Spanish) by visitors to the Greenpeace website. It had undergone a major refit by Greenpeace to make it more environmentally friendly. A new helicopter deck and boat cranes were also added.

The ship has a heavy ice class,^[3] giving it the ability to work in polar regions. It has a top speed of 16 knots and an overall length of 72.3 m. This makes it the fastest and largest of the Greenpeace fleet.^[3]

It has been involved in many campaigns, starting with the logging 'save or delete' campaign and currently in Cape Town.

Greenpeace added live webcams to the Esperanza in 2006. The webcams are positioned on the bow of the ship, the mast and the bridge, they send a new image every minute to their Defending Our Oceans website and provide an archive of action.

In April 2006, the Esperanza was equipped with state-of-the-art underwater monitoring equipment, including a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) which can shoot video down to a depth of 300 m, and a drop camera capable of reaching depths of 1,000 m.