10 Things You Can Do To Help Save Our Oceans…New Study Finds Plastic Changing Ocean Life

For at least the past 10 years, I’ve been telling anyone who will listen about the impending catastrophic results of dumping plastic into our oceans. I’ve written about various research projects into the Pacific Gyre – AKA: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and Project Kaisei, Mary Crowley San Francisco-based expedition team that studies marine debris in the North Pacific Gyre in hopes of cleaning up the pollution that will ultimately cause irreversible damage to oceans. Problems like Acidification, temperature rise and worse, destruction of marine habitats. Here are 10 things you can do to help save our oceans…

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Living Better With Less – the Cruising Lifestyle (hello NBC?)

Last night I saw a report on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams called “Living Better With Les.” In the report they featured a few viewers who have “gotten back to basics” by ridding themselves of a lifetime of accumulated “stuff.” Could it be that Americans are starting to catch on? Is Consumerism on the [...]

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The Whale…An amazing story!

If you read a recent front page story of the San Francisco Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth.

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Support Project Kaisei & Win A Trip To French Polynesia

Imagine you and three guests exploring the myriad uninhabited islands and secluded coves of French Polynesia for one week aboard ROCKET SCIENCE, a 50 ft. sailing yacht! Plastic trash in the global ocean is one the most serious problems facing the planet today. Help Project Kaisei continue its work. Grand Prize Drawing August 28, 2010

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SOEST animation predicts gulf oil spill after 360 days

The School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa has released a video animation predicting the longterm fate of the BP oil spill. The animation paints a devastating picture of the southern and eastern coastlines of the United States.

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