Standardizing the Standard, the UN joins the fight

Recently, the OceanGybe crew was forwarded a series of e-mails by incredibly dedicated Fabiano Barretto of Global Garbage. OceanGybe started working with the Global Garbage team while we were in Fernando de Noronha, Brazil, evaluating the evidence of African refuse on...

More information on Plastics and our Oceans

Interested in garbage, recycling and our oceans ? I am lying here on the coach recovering from ear surgery after surfing in cold Canadian waters for too long and have had time to search/surf the internet and have come across some incredible interesting...

International Surf Day (ISD) in Montreal, Canada

International Surfing Day is the official unofficial holiday when all beach lovers and surfers are supposed to head down to their beach, catch a couple waves, share the stoke of surfing with all and sundry, then clean the beach and do their part to preserve this...

Goodbye Khulula

As I type this, the darkness and gloom slowly increases as Hugh is slowly taping over all the remaining windows on Khulula. The dehumidifier is working overtime trying to remove the residue of my forepeak cleaning experiment – taking the fresh water hosepipe into the...

Garbage, Garbage everywhere…

Frequent readers of our wandering – both geographically and mentally – blogs may be beginning to wonder if we are really doing any sort of studies on the plastic refuse concentrating on our beaches globally. Stories of interesting people, obscure...