In the early hours of 10 July 1985, Peter Willcox, captain of Greenpeace's ship Rainbow Warrior, was woken by a huge explosion.
The environmental campaign group had docked in Auckland New Zealand, to protest against French nuclear testing in the Pacific.
'My room was upside down,' says Peter in new docuseries Murder in the Pacific. 'In the engine room, water was rising, then the second explosion happened. I shouted, "Abandon ship!" The whole boat sank in 40 seconds.'
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