On Monday, 6th of February, the Greenpeace France-chartered Merida trimaran and two small boats approached the White Marlin heavy-lift vessel, which carried Shell’s 34,000 tonne oil and gas platform to the North Sea. Two Greenpeace International climbers, Pascal Havez from France, and Silja Zimmermann from Germany, used ropes to board the Shell-contracted ship from one of the small boats. They joined four other activists who had been occupying the oil and gas platform since Tuesday, January 31. Demanding Shell to "Stop drilling. Start paying."
