[GREENPEACE. FINAL SINKING OF THE RAINBOW WARRIOR]

This footage shot for television covers the scuttling of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior on Saturday 12 December 1987, two years after it was bombed by French secret service agents in retaliation for protesting of French nuclear testing in the Pacific.

The video begins with the tapu lifting ceremony, blessings and speeches led by Māori and Pākehā ministers of religion. Former Minister for the Environment, Phil Goff, Dover Samuels and others accompany the official party, while a crowd observes from the wharf. Flowers are shown [in the cabin where Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira died during the bombing].

Further footage shows the Rainbow Warrior leaving the wharf and being towed through [Whangaroa Harbour] to its final resting place between Matauri Bay and Motukawanui Island, the largest of the Cavalli Islands. The ship is prepared for sinking and then scuttled as a fog horn sounds. The sinking is observed by people on a collection of smaller craft and a Greenpeace ship [the new Rainbow Warrior]. Final scenes show the ship at rest underwater.