So the Greenpeace ship was here because they were about to go do research on a huge coldwater reef off Norway's Lofoten Islands. We found out by waylaying a guy as he went onboard. Then we went and Googled it - cool!
They left dock as my bus went by on the way to work. I waved, but no one saw.
That left the Eco Queen, which has been docked right outside our windows all winter. It has a helipad on top and an Orca on the side. Really a beautiful ship. So I Googled that, too. Check out the second story on this page! It is an environmental group's ship - the Green Warriors. They will use it for conferences and for tracking polluters. The Eco Queen left this week a day or two later.
On the other side of the coin is the huge ship that's here a lot - the EWOS EXPRESS. That one is a research ship dealing with transportation of farmed salmon. Click on this link to see pictures and all about it in Norwegian. Or just take my word for it... Anyway, salmon farming is really big business here. The Green Warriors are against it. The EWOS Express is researching how the "well ships" get the smolt from the breeding places to the farms (in big vats with hoses for delivering them into the netted farms) and from the farms back to the slaughterhouses. Apparently, well ships can carry disease and they can also knock holes in the nets so that thousands of salmon get out. This is bad for the wild salmon because of disease and genetic mixing.
So ship watching is educational!
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