Sea Dragon and her eXXpedition Caribbean 2016 Crew are about to arrive in‪ Barbados‬! Ready for beach cleans, school talks and outreach to make the unseen seen, from the toxics in our bodies to the toxics and plastics in our seas! Don’t forget you can keep to date with their antics […]

eXXpedition crew moved aboard Sea Dragon and prepared for departure for Barbados. First up was orientation and safety from Skipper Shanley! Check out the pictures below for an idea of what life aboard Sea Dragon is like. Later in the day Sea Dragon and her crew of changemakers hoisted their […]

You know the saying “out of sight out of mind”? Today’s revelation for me was that trash is the other way around. Let me elaborate: today we did a beach clean here in hot, sunny Chaguaramas, Trinidad. When we got started it didn’t seem so bad, but once we got […]

The Ocean Awards has recognised our very own director, Emily Penn with the FitzRoy Award. Named after the captain of the Beagle, on which Darwin made his famous voyage of discovery to the Galápagos, this award is for the adventurer or explorer who achieved the most to further ocean conservation […]

Every time we do our washing, millions of little pieces of microplastics are released into the waste water. Just by doing the laundry we are all contributing to plastic pollution. The first results of the Life+ Mermaids research have proved that washing is a major source of plastic soup. The […]

OUR OCEANS ARE FILLED WITH WONDERS THAT YOU CAN’T REALLY IMAGINE The Earth’s oceans are a world of mystery, magic and beauty. It’s this apart from anything else that lures divers into their depths. There is a seemingly endless array of fascinating facts about our oceans. Many of these facts […]

Sailing is a lifelong pursuit. If we are lucky enough to have the time, money, and skills to join sailing expeditions as we age, we find ourselves sharing the experience with younger, more active sailors. Our learning curves are often very different, and while this is not always a factor […]

I cannot recall how many times I have advised my crew that much of what we come to appreciate and love about our sailing adventures occurs in retrospect. It was for this reason that I chose to pause upon my return and wait a while before taking the time to […]

Last night I could finally see the moon after a few cloudy nights. It was yellowish and its brightness could reflect upon the ocean even though it was a crescent moon. It looked like it was smiling at us, at Sea Dragon and at the ocean. It looked like two […]

She read the racy pulp-fiction as she sat in the saloon listening to jazz. Up above, a motorboat approached. She heard the motor slow, then stop. A voice, “Hello? Hello?” There were two men, both in gray shirts and dark dungarees; one stood holding Sea Dragon’s rail. The other sat […]

The night before we began our epic journey into the Essequibo we experienced our strongest squall of 35 knots. It was by no means unmanageable but the night watch were taken a little by surprise and there was an all hands call to reef the main and get the boat […]

This is something that is joked about on the boat plenty. Many of us, before leaving, encountered friends, loved ones, and colleagues who referred to this as a vacation. Maybe we wax poeticly we are the types to always look on the bright side. This post describes some of our […]