Daniel Mares, skipper of the veteran protest yacht Vega, at Princes Wharf in Auckland harbour about to set sail with a flotilla opposing deep sea oil drilling. Twenty yachts, kayaks, small boats and tira waka escorted a group of four yachts heading to Whangaparaoa Bay, by Cape Runaway on the East Cape of the North Island, to join te Whanau-a-Apanui in their campaign to defend the coast from deep sea oil exploration.