Do you remember when Earthrace visited Riverton? Pete Bethune came to the highschool to talk to the kids, while the bio diesel-powered boat sat at the 'T' wharf, looking like something off the set of WaterWorld or Star Wars. One at a time, all of the students went through the boat, getting a feel for how it would be to be powering over the oceans of the world in a water-bat!
None of us knew then that the boat would eventually be sunk by a Japanese whaling ship in the bitterly cold southern oceans.
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