From: MV Solo Date: FRI 3-MAR-95 06:31:30 GMT -- Day 9

Media/Position update from Greenpeace vessel Solo

STILL STEAMING SOUTHWEST, 265 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE CAPE VERDE ISLANDS

The position of the Pacific Pintail at 0700 GMT was 19 degrees and 41 minutes North and 29 degrees and 36 minutes West. The Pintail has maintained her speed of 14 knots and still sails on a compass course of 210 degrees (southwest).

Yesterday evening we heard that people in the Virgin Islands gathered in a vigil against the passage of the Pacific Pintail through their region. Within the next days it will become clearer which route the ship may take. But, wherever the ship will turn to --Cape Good Hope, the Panama Canal, or Cape Horn-- its radioactive cargo will endanger coast lines, fisheries, and tourist industries while in France a deadly heritage of radioactive pollution has been left behind as an invisible witness of the nuclear age.

The Pacific Pintail is currently on a distance of some 265 miles northwest of the Cape Verde Islands.

Life on the high seas is less than exciting at the moment. We steam along keeping an eye on our nuclear waste shipment companion but other than that, there's not much to see out here. I had originally planned to attend the Non-Proliferation Treaty talks this April at the UN in New York but, with the route so uncertain, I may end up sailing with the Solo throughout the whole, long journey.

Having seen the round-up of media coverage on the Pintail's departure from France, the crew and I are amazed that this story has reach so many people around the world. I have heard from people in California by E-mail that other environmental and anti- nuclear groups have been doing vigils and group meetings an thus have given their support to our day-to-day efforts out here to turn this nuclear horror around........ maybe a miracle will happen and we'll witness the first signs of end of the nuclear age.