Why?

When I have explained to people what I will be doing there is usually one of two responses.  Wow!  That sounds so awesome, what an incredible life changing opportunity! or Why on earth would you want to do that? There are actually quite a few reasons I want to go....

Questions & Answers

I have been asked quite a few questions about the voyage in the last couple of months so I thought I would add them here in case other people wanted to know the same thing. What is the plastic vortex? Over to you wiki …  The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also...

The voyage facts …

The Sea Dragon will be departing from Tokyo on May 30th and sailing east towards Hawaii arriving on the stunning island of Maui on July 1st. The Sea Dragon team will arc northeast to the Japanese Tsunami Debris Field.  Estimates of tens of thousands of tons of debris...

And so it begins …

It all started back in November 2011 when I was researching for a TEDx talk I was doing at Discovery College, Discovery Bay.  I went to the site www.algalita.org which I had been to many times before whilst researching previous talks on plastic pollution in the ocean...