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Plastic Bottle Catamaran Crosses The Pacific Ocean

Posted by samzenpus on from the not-your-usual-trash-barge dept.

The Plastiki, a catamaran made with plastic bottles, has completed a 8,000 mile trip between San Francisco and Sydney. Captain David de Rothschild said, "The Plastiki is literally a metaphorical message in a bottle about beating waste and reducing our human fingerprints on our natural environment." The boat will go on display at the Australian National Maritime Museum for the next month.

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  1. The Heyerdahl Connection by Misagon · · Score: 4, Informative

    The name "Plastiki" is also a reference to how the craft resembles Norwegian amateur explorer/archeologist Thor Heyerdahl's raft/catamaran Kon-Tiki which had done a similar journey across the Pacific.

    Thor Heyerdahl's son is also one of the people behind the project, and on board.

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    "We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
  2. Direct image links by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    To save work for anybody else who hates the stupid formatting on the website, here are direct links to the images:
    http://www.upi.com/story/image/fs/12801716709263
    http://www.upi.com/story/image/fs/12801765546116