We’ve got a mix of 13 crew members from all over, including the UK, Holland, United States, Brazil, Sweden, and one person all the way from Bermuda! We spent the larger part of the morning assembling our multi-level trawl, which is paramount in collecting any plastic debris. It collects debris at various levels to create a depth profile of plastics within the gyre.
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We’ve finally got some breeze again after a few interminable days of motorboating towards Bermuda and have had a glorious day sailing upwind, doing 8, sometimes 9 or 10 knots through the waves.
Read MoreHere, I follow each movement of the ship that appears in the distance with much excitement, and I greet every seabird like a long lost friend. It didn’t matter how I would make it to Bermuda, what would happen tomorrow, or even how I would survive those first four hours.
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https://vimeo.com/80145347 The Ocean Cleanup with Pangaea Explorations from Pangaea Explorations on Vimeo. Sea Dragon is safely berthed in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, after a tumultuous but ultimately successful voyage from Bermuda. I’ve sailed with a lot of different crews over the years, and dealt with a lot of different gear […]
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There are lots of first times on this ship for me, like first time out on the ocean ever, first time driving a 22 meter yacht toward a tropical squall and the first time I have ever seen a flying fish! And as a real city boy, I thought they only […]
Read MoreAs day two draws to a close, the team’s spirits are on the rise. The sea sickness of day one has subsided and appetites have returned. The weather and swells are starting to calm down and we hope to deploy both Team Science! and the trawl tomorrow. We were able to […]
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After a very productive day in St. George’s on Wednesday, The Ocean Cleanup‘s multi-level trawl was assembled and improved based on their brief tests in Rotterdam Harbor and the crew was well practiced in deploying and recovering it in the calm waters of St. George’s Harbor. This morning we left the […]
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Bermuda has the chance to become one of the first nations to dedicate the majority of their surrounding waters in their EEZ as a ‘no-take’ zone. This Blue Halo has been proposed to encompass the waters from 50nm – 200nm offshore, the edge of Bermuda’s exclusive economic zone. This would […]
Read MoreIt’s good to be back in Bermuda. Just a few months ago we were here conducting research in the Sargasso with an alliance of researchers led by BAMZ, the loudly acronymed Bermuda Aquarium, Museum, and Zoo, before we headed north to the Great Lakes for a summer of fresh water. […]
Read MoreSea Dragon and the Pangaea crew have been having a wonderful time in Bermuda! They arrived in Hamilton after a 6-day transit from Key West on on May 18th. Since the arrival, Pangaea has joined forces with the Greenrock’s Bermuda Alliance for the Sargasso Sea project, or BASS. See the […]
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