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OCEAN VOYAGES INSTITUTE SETS RECORD WITH LARGEST OPEN OCEAN CLEANUP IN HISTORY
(Press Release / Photos/Video) HONOLULU, HI — June 23, 2020 – Ocean Voyages Institute’s marine plastic recovery vessel, S/V KWAI, docked at the port of Honolulu today, after a 48-day expedition, successfully removing 103 tons (206,000 lbs.) of fishing nets and consumer plastics from the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone,…
OCEAN VOYAGES INSTITUTE REMOVES 40 TONS OF PLASTIC, INCLUDING 5-TON GHOST NET
Largest Ocean Clean Up Mission/ A Turning Point For Ocean Plastics Link to the Press Release. Sausalito, CA – Ocean Voyages Institute, a nonprofit organization, announced today that it has successfully removed more than 40 tons of fishing nets and consumer plastics from the area known as the North Pacific…
OCEAN VOYAGES INSTITUTE 2019 SUMMER MARINE DEBRIS CLEAN-UP EXPEDITION
Ocean Voyages Institute’s 2019 Expedition will be REMOVING ghost nets and massive amounts of plastic from the North Pacific Gyre. Our actions provide solutions: • Capturing ghost nets/debris that we tagged with Satellite trackers before it entangle and kill marine life • Removing toxic plastics from our ocean and food…
OCEAN PLASTIC PROLIFERATION & THE GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH
WE in the maritime industry know and understand this in a way few others do. As mariners, many of us see the problem first hand. We can all be dynamic parts of the solution by our stewardship on our own yachts and supporting effective at-sea ocean clean-up. People are beginning…
OCEAN VOYAGES INSTITUTE – GHOST NET TAGGING AND RETRIEVAL
During the kick-off year of our ghost net clean-up in 2018, 18 satellite trackers were deployed by various vessels of opportunity in the Pacific. With the help of citizen scientists and other ships of opportunity, OVI will continue to tag large, floating plastic debris in the North Pacific Gyre with…