When a Navy Bomb Killed a Greenpeace Photographer in Auckland Harbor

Emergencies and Natural Disasters · Sep 28, 2026 · 22m

When a Navy Bomb Killed a Greenpeace Photographer in Auckland Harbor

Fear that a friendly state's agents would attack a protest ship in a peaceful port: at 23:23 on July 10, 1985, a bomb tore a car-sized hole in the Rainbow Warrior and, seven minutes later, a second explosion killed photographer Fernando Pereira - why did those seven minutes exist and who was ever held to account?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that night, the lead-up from protests at Mururoa Atoll, and the undercover operations in Auckland that made the attack possible, closing on the question of…