We need something to clean up the ocean!

Carl Safina on TED. We need to clean up the ocean!

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Insurance

Whilst visiting the Lloyd's building the other day, I saw the official ledger for sunken ships, next to the official insurance ledger from 100 years before. On the day we'd visited (31st March) there had been 4 ships lost in 1910; this is equal to the total number lost this month in 2010. Sea safety has come a long way, but we still have much to learn.

More about Lloyd's ledger

Project Kaisei

Project Kaisei is a project to study and clean up the garbage patch launched in March 2009. In August 2009 two project vessels, the New Horizon and the Kaisei, embarked on a voyage to research the patch and determine the feasibility of commercial scale collection and recycling.^[34]

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