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Solar-Assisted, Volcanic-Composite Sailboat Navigating World’s Toughest Waters

Carbon fiber has established itself as a wonder material in vehicle construction, with its mix of low weight and high strength being prized for many of the world’s ...
On April 1, 2015 / By Administrator
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First Scientific Stop In The Azores For The Race For Water Odyssey

Having left Bordeaux (France) on March 15, the “Race for Water Odyssey” scientific sailing expedition, which aims to protect the oceans from plastic pollution, arrived in the Azores ...
On March 25, 2015 / By Administrator
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Sailors for the Sea Launches New Magazine

Sailors for the Sea recently launched a new online magazine called Ocean Watch that aims to inform readers about the issues facing the waters where they sail and ...
On March 4, 2015 / By Administrator
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Show the Ocean Some Love

This Valentine’s Day, leading conservation organization Sailors for the Sea is asking millions of U.S. boaters and others to show the ocean some love in celebration of Valentine’s Day, February ...
On February 4, 2015 / By Administrator
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Become a Citizen Oceanographer: Help Scientists Close the Data Gap

Planning an open ocean cruise? If so, you are the key to helping scientists better understand the health of the world’s oceans. When we look across the limitless ...
On January 28, 2015 / By Administrator
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VOR Sailors See Disturbing Amounts of Pollution in Asia

Bouwe Bekking, skipper of Team Brunel, is not impressed with what he has seen in Asian waters. His focus is the amount of garbage witnessed during the Volvo ...
On January 21, 2015 / By Administrator
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Study Says 270,000 Tons of Plastic Floating in Oceans

A new study estimates nearly 270,000 tons of plastic is floating in the world’s oceans. That’s enough to fill more than 38,500 garbage trucks. The plastic is broken ...
On December 17, 2014 / By Administrator
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100 Trans-Atlantic Sailboats Rally for Science

Before the new year, crew members from 100 sailboats are set to collect 600 ocean water samples from a 602,000-square-nautical-mile area in the Atlantic Ocean for ASC’s microplastics ...
On December 10, 2014 / By Administrator
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Our Oceans: Why we should care?

Who doesn’t love a good info graphic these days, click on it to enlarge… ...
On November 20, 2014 / By Administrator
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30 Days on the Bay with the Ocean Research Project

In case you thought a leisurely, month-long sail from Norfolk to Annapolis in Chesapeake summer sounds like fun, let’s examine Exhibit A: Matt Rutherford, who spent 30 days ...
On November 13, 2014 / By Administrator

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