OCEAN GYBE:
Sailing the World with the Pirates of Plastic
In the summer of 2007, brothers Ryan and
Bryson Robertson, along with their good friend
Hugh Patterson, embarked on a
three-year journey to circumnavigate the globe and raise awareness
about the deteriorating state of the world's oceans. The project,
called 'Ocean Gybe', kicked off on a
sailboat in La Paz, Mexico and would document the levels and
effects of marine pollution and ocean borne plastics on remote
islands and beaches around the world. They traveled across the
Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans, and what they discovered was
disturbing - garbage, particularly plastic shopping bags and pop
bottles, are piling up on the world's beaches and jeopardizing the
lives of marine wildlife. Picture this - in one 50 metre stretch of
beach on the Cocos Keeling Islands (an Australian territory about
1,500 km west of Bali), the Ocean Gybe crew found 300 flip flops
and 200 plastic pop bottles, in addition to "every other imaginable
piece of plastic you can think of."
Join us for a highly informative and inspiring hour with
Ryan, Bryson and Hugh as they discuss the findings of their Ocean
Gybe project, and talk about how each of us can lessen our personal
impact on the oceans.