As you can see on the SPOT Tracker satellite fix ( “Live Map” ) Sea Dragon and her team pushed off from Rio on schedule and – with a HUGE feeling of relief, headed out to sea. Departures invariably bring a major rush of activity, long nights and a last […]
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Today
Today we are go. Everything dozens of people work and believe in is now converged on Rio and Sea Dragon is about Today. Months of planning, decisions, sacrifice, investment and personal challenge now become a tangible reality. When we go to sea, or on any great human journey there are […]
Read MoreT-1 The Age We Live In
Today is one of the toughest days of any expedition – just before we go. We are at maximum preparation intensity. The full team is there…physically at least. They are setting down, making home in a common space, orientating, figuring things out, thinking through all the decisions that led them […]
Read MoreT-7…Here We Go Again
I don’t know if this is how it was for Magellan, Columbus, Lewis and Clark, Shackelton, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin…or even Indiana Jones…but I have seen this movie before. What we remember about really exceptional expeditions is, well…, the “exceptional part”. Great team, discovery and insight beyond all hope, […]
Read MoreWhere next?
When we think about the future, particularly in environmental work, we so often feel the “walls” closing in on us- limiting our choices and presenting ever darker scenarios that are increasingly hard to get excited about. While it absolutely true that we face monumental challenges ahead- more so than any […]
Read MoreSea Dragon Getting Ready To Rumble.
It’s been a crazy year for us, lot’s of press, lots of great partnerships forming. As many of you know by now, Pangaea is partnered with 5 Gyres on a whole host of expeditions. At the end of August, Sea Dragon’s schedule gets frantic. We’ll have press events in […]
Read MoreLifecycle
One of the important ideas in recovering from this dramatic marine debris program is “lifecycle management” or “cradle to cradle” (formerly -“to grave”). Sounding like a Sante-Fe inspired new age health plan, this is actually a very engineering oriented look at managing out use of materials. The intellectual premise is […]
Read MoreNo Island
One of the toughest parts of conservation, business, family life or any human endeavor seems to be facing reality. We all spend alot of time looking around the issues, skimming the surface and fighting on the margins. Staring down the problem in its unvarnished truth is as tough as it […]
Read MoreNuke it…well sort of…
As hard as we work on observation, research and education….at some point we need to get to solutions. Dr. Marcus Eriksen and I recently went up to Montreal Canada to look at a promising new solution. Something called a Plasma Resource Recovery System – or PRRS promises exciting potential as […]
Read MoreMerci
Today is important. It is the 100th anniversary of a man, and frankly, an era that has driven so much change in our relationship with the sea. Born in the south of France on June 11, 1910 Jacques Cousteau would have been 100 today. He lived close enough to that […]
Read MoreMixing Art and Science
That’s it, right there, the first time I saw the ocean- only 14 years old… We recently had a chance to sit down to eat, talk and learn with a man that has been an inspiration to many of us in ocean conservation- and a one that thinks very differently […]
Read MoreReflections of a three time crosser
Stephen Amato served as crew for almost nine months on Sea Dragon. A bit like the young man in Jack London’s Sea Wolf, he went to sea and came home a changed man. Have a look at this video…
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