Remember my last diary and about Captain Celso and his strong opposition to implement the tori line on his boat? Well, my strategy worked out well.
After a month I managed to get him to put the tori line on the boat and that was a great achievement not only for me personally, but for all of us at Projeto Albatroz!
It was great to see the tori line construction. Even more beautiful to see it on the boat. WOW! All the fishermen started making the line to the tori line with all the colourful strings attached. It was funny, however, they managed to make it with great spirit! I told them they were making history and that they would soon became famous!
And they were! After the tori line was finished, I told Celso to put it on his boat with the lines. As soon the tori line was up, the boat started attracting the attention of all the people from the harbour and other captains were asking what the hell that was. Well, I told them all: 'It's the new technology to capture more fish and to reduce the numbers of seabirds on the hooks'.
As they were seeing this for the first time, some reporters started arriving and making interviews with fishermen and with Celso. It was like this for two days. Then, the main Brazilian TV station, Rede Globo, arrived at the boat with a famous reporter and started immediately making interviews with all the crew.
They eventually went on a cruise for six days with the TV crew and made a programme that was broadcasted nationwide.
If that was not enough attention, some days later the BBC arrived. While they were doing all the recording, it was great to see them all happy interacting with the fishermen and Celso.
To be honest Celso was not used to getting this attention, but looking at him I could read his thoughts... he was already thinking where he was going to go on his next fishing cruise...