Rainbow Warrior facts
While investigating facts about Rainbow Warrior Fly and Rainbow Warrior Bombing, I found out little known, but curios details like:
In 1985 France bombed and sank a Greenpeace ship called the Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand using secret agents under the codename "Opération Satanique"
how to tie a rainbow warrior?
French agents bombed and sank the Rainbow Warrior, a Greenpeace ship that was planning to go protest a French nuclear test site.
What does a rainbow warrior fly imitate?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what happened to the rainbow warrior. Here are 10 of the best facts about Rainbow Warrior Case and Rainbow Warrior Greenpeace I managed to collect.
what's rainbow warrior?
-
Alain Mafart, who sunk Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior, later became a photographer and had a photo selected to be featured in a Greenpeace calendar.
-
In 1985, French special agents sunk Greenpeace's flagship ''Rainbow Warrior'' while docked at the Port of Auckland, NZ.
-
The French DSGE sunk a 131ft Greenpeace ship, named the Rainbow Warrior, for planning to protest French nuclear testing by sailing into the test area.
-
Greenpeace selected a photograph for an international calendar, unknowing its author was the French agent who bombed Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand. After realising who the author actually was, they destroyed 14,000 calendars
-
France sank the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour New Zealand in 1985 using two limpet mines.
-
In June 26th, 1987: A.J. Hackett, a New Zealander angry against the French Rainbow Warrior scandal, jumped from the Eiffel Tower with a stretchy elastic bungy. Back home, he founded his own company, and invented Bungy Jumping
-
The 2015 Greenpeace calendar contained an image shot by one of the men involved in the bombing of the Greenpeace ship, the Rainbow Warrior, in 1985. Greenpeace only became aware of this after the calendar had shipped to stores.
