Pellets wash up on shores of Great Lakes

Preproduction Plastic Pellets, also known as knurdles, are the raw material that is used to manufacture virually all plastic products. Oceangybe was collecting samples of these around the world for the Pellet Watch program in Japan. Recently a large number washed up...

Time to Celebrate! The OceanGybe R.A.P Party

R.A.P = Rise Above Plastics In conjunction with Plastic Manners, the Surfrider Foundation and Metro Vancouver, OceanGybe is hosting a Rise Above Plastics awareness party on the 30th September 2010. Sponsored by our long time friends at Sitka Surfboards and Livity...

Oh so good to be home – surrounded by majestic BC!

The boat is very flat and calm, the birds are chipping outside and the grocery store is only a 5 minute walk away. The pleasures of land ! We arrived in Winter Harbour yesterday afternoon after an extremely comfortable passage from Maui, Hawaii. Our memories of white...

We went to the Gyre and almost got there

I swear we did. We left Hawaii with a basic plan of how to get to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Sail north into the beginning of the High, then motor East into the worst of the garbage, then take a 90′ left turn, calmly exit out of the top of the high, enter...