We are heading out to sea today and everyone has been busy since early this morning getting the ship final prepped for the voyage. To say everyone is excited would be an understatement and we are all ready to go. We spent yesterday learning about the various equipment that Dr. Marcus
Eriksen has made and will be using to explore and grab samples. We will be using a "Manta Trawl" that will be trawling with fine nets grabbing surface fish and plastic. We are also sending a Benthic Grabber "Sediment Scoop" to the bottom of the ocean to pick up material from the ocean floor that can go as deep as 5 miles. It is all some very innovative equipment that has never been used before. Check out the video on the equipment at
http://www.5gyres.org/whats_happening_now. We also went through the ship again to secure everything
and made an inventory list of food and supplies. Our ships owner Ron
Ritter of
http://www.pangaea.org/ left late yesterday afternoon and headed back to California where his wife Portia is 8 months pregnant so he could be there for the birth of their baby. I know he would love to be along for the voyage but he has been sailing since September bringing the Sea Dragon down from the UK stopping along the way in ports of Portugal, Cape Verde, Morocco, and The Canary Islands en route to the Caribbean. They are putting the EcoUsable and Blue Turtle sponsor decals on the Sea Dragon as I type this blog and I want to say thanks again to
http://www.ecousable.com/ for allowing me to be here. As I ran along the beautiful coastline yesterday afternoon I found another 16 bottles and can
s. The people in the cars next to the pathway were yelling thank you
every time they saw me pick up the debris. All the plastic starts with us and on the land and works its way to the oceans and waterways. Someday I hope we eliminate the single use plastic bottles and all switch to using our own stainless steel water bottles like
EcoUsable. North Atlantic
Gyre here we come. I will update as I am able from the sea...
and made an inventory list of food and supplies. Our ships owner Ron Ritter of http://www.pangaea.org/ left late yesterday afternoon and headed back to California where his wife Portia is 8 months pregnant so he could be there for the birth of their baby. I know he would love to be along for the voyage but he has been sailing since September bringing the Sea Dragon down from the UK stopping along the way in ports of Portugal, Cape Verde, Morocco, and The Canary Islands en route to the Caribbean. They are putting the EcoUsable and Blue Turtle sponsor decals on the Sea Dragon as I type this blog and I want to say thanks again to http://www.ecousable.com/ for allowing me to be here. As I ran along the beautiful coastline yesterday afternoon I found another 16 bottles and can
s. The people in the cars next to the pathway were yelling thank you every time they saw me pick up the debris. All the plastic starts with us and on the land and works its way to the oceans and waterways. Someday I hope we eliminate the single use plastic bottles and all switch to using our own stainless steel water bottles like EcoUsable. North Atlantic Gyre here we come. I will update as I am able from the sea...
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