And this is what lies at the heart of Panagea Explorations, taking ordinary people out to sea, to witness and research the growing problem of marine plastic debris. And this is what lies at the heart of Selfridgesโ exhibition also. A concept model of Sea Dragon is surrounded by five beautifully designed items, each of which are representations of the five ocean gyres, by artist duo Studio Swine.
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Project Ocean: Loops and Cycles
This post originally appeared on the ONCA blog here. By Laura Coleman, Onca Director There are cycles to this planet. ย We learn about them in school. ย Rock, carbon, water and nitrogen; they all flow in beautiful circles. ย But thereโs something else that flows too. ย Waste. ย More specifically plastic, in the […]
Read MoreProject Ocean: A Sea Change
Our oceans are full of plastic, and fragments of fishing nets, bottle lids, microbeads and cotton buds are some of the most dangerous things that lurk in the deep. Yesterday was the first in a series of events this summer run by Selfridges Project Ocean, the Zoological Society London and a host of other amazing partners in the Ultralounge at Selfridges, in an effort to rethink the stories we tell ourselves about plastic.
Read MoreThe Ocean Cleanup: Greetings from the Azores
Nothing more shocking than feeling as if you are in the most remote part of the planet, and yet, seeing evidence of our footprint float by every day.
Read MoreThe Ocean Cleanup: Marine life sightings as we approach the Azores
After a great day of sailing and our last supper of our haute cuisine, we got – as a final touch – a little bird playing around in the last lights of the sunset. Now the sun made place again for the twilight that will slowly take us to our last ocean night with stars above us, leading the way, and lights underneath us in the water, carrying the boat back to land to Horta, Azores, Portugal.
Read MoreThe Ocean Cleanup: Underwater selfie
Today, due to the lack of wind and calm seas, we had a late afternoon swim call.
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The Ocean Cleanup: Pfannekuchen, swimming, and bioluminescence
Starting off as a joke, the Dutch/German cooking team decided to make Pfannekuchen, the European predecessor of globally popular pancakes. Not thinking of the consequences we started at around 9:30 AM with the cooking, giving us 2.5 h to make approx. 40 Pfannekuchen for the 13 hungry sailors. Needless to say, frying Pfannekuchen on a sailboat rolling with the swell and waves is quite a treat.
Read MoreThe Ocean Cleanup: What I’ve Learned
Before starting this trip I had close to zero sailing experience and my sea voyages were a few ferry rides. After 2 weeks at sea I have learned and experienced so much it is hard to sum it all up.
Read MoreThe Ocean Cleanup: Final day of trawling
Last day of trawling today, and now we point straight for the Azores! 33 successful trawls under our belt.
Read MoreThe Ocean Cleanup: The ocean during night watch
Plastic pollution is more much important that I could ever imagine in deep waters. The trawlings today happened without any problem. Everybody seems confident for the utility of the research, so am I. We already have 297 samples for TOC to study. We are at the beginning of something big!
Read MoreThe Ocean Cleanup: Collecting plastic debris
In addition to our trawl sampling, we are accumulating quite the collection of larger plastic debris! So far on our journey we have retrieved crates, jugs, buoys, fenders, hausers, and floats.
Read MoreThe Ocean Cleanup: Halfway between Bermuda and the Azores
During the past 6 days, we have successfully deployed our Multi-level Trawl 18 times and are doing test-runs of our new Sighting Survey app, which will be officially launched during the upcoming Mega Expedition. We plan to arrive at the Azores on the 13th of July with 363 ocean plastic samples, 13 happy people, and a finalized version of The Ocean Cleanup Survey App for both Apple and Android smartphones.
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