Dive Into Your Imagination

Annie Crawley will join the Scientific Expedition aboard the 174 foot New Horizon, a ship operated by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, one of the leading oceanographic institutes in the world.  The voyage will depart from San Diego on August 2, 2009 with members from the Project Kaisei team. The 150 foot Kaisei, the organization’s flagship vessel, will depart from San Francisco on August 4, 2009 with a team of leading marine scientists and experts in marine debris capture. The New Horizon, in an alliance with Project Kaisei, will conduct a 21 day expedition to the gyre for scientific research, with the Kaisei traveling for 30 days into the gyre for concurrent studies on netting and capture testing, as well as mapping/tracking observations.  Crawley of Dive Into Your Imagination will be documenting the expedition aboard the New Horizon and posting blogs and articles about life on the ship.

“Everything we do on land affects the Ocean.  The Ocean is responsible for 70% of the Oxygen our planet needs.  We need a healthy Ocean.  This expedition will allow us to open up a conversation on the solutions to the problem in our sea!”

Ocean currents carry marine debris from the shores of North America and Asia to the North Pacific Gyre, an area of the Pacific north east of Hawaii. Project Kaisei will systematically study the types and quantities of marine debris, the biological impacts that these materials have on the ocean environment and marine life, and investigate innovative technologies that might offer solutions for economically cleaning up marine debris in the world’s oceans by converting waste plastics into fuel and products, from textiles to containers.

“The sooner we see the extent of the problem, the better we can work out feasible ways to clean up the mess. But the real solution lays in assuming responsibility for the outcomes of our actions, to start using environmentally-sustainable products and to start disposing of our waste responsibly” said Doug Woodring, Co-Founder and Project Director of Project Kaisei.
Project Kaisei has partnered with Scripps Institution in San Diego, a leading oceanographic institutes, under the umbrella of the “Ocean Recovery Alliance”, a format that Project Kaisei will seek to follow with other third-party institutions and organizations in the future.  Project Kaisei is also recognized as a “Climate Hero” by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) in the lead up to the Copenhagen talks.

Project Kaisei is funded by individual donors and sponsors internationally who are committed to preventing, reducing and cleaning up ocean debris in creative new ways.   

 For more information, to contribute, collaborate, and to pre-register to follow the expedition in real-time with the ‘Project Kaisei Interactive Voyage Tracker’ please visit: http://www.projectkaisei.org/

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