Project to Clean Up North Pacific Garbage Patch Now in its fourth year, Project Kaisei has come to rely upon satellite communications for effective communication with colleagues ashore as well as ...

2011 marks the third Project Kaisei expedition that Marlink and Sea Tel will support with the donation of VSAT equipment and services. “2009 was the first expedition that Marlink and Sea Tel ...

Still Crowley and her team of researchers keep trying.Next year, Kaisei will bring back 100 tons of garbage to process into oil by pyrolysis. A scratch on the surface, to even be charitable.

Ocean Voyages Institute founder Mary Crowley, also the co-founder of Project Kaisei, said the group's 151-foot vessel, along with another research boat from the San Diego area, performed tests ...

Project Kaisei Links with BIR The Bureau of International Recycling (BIR), Brussels, has become an official sponsor of Project Kaisei’s effort to assess the impact of and techniques for removing ...

In the expeditions it’s planning for 2010, Project Kaisei will focus on picking out big, derelict fishing nets, which can snarl up marine life in a process known as “ghostfishing.” ...

Woodring hopes that Project Kaisei will awaken people to the fact that the plastic they throw in the garbage doesn’t just disappear. “Anyone who has ever been on the beach and seen plastic ...

The 5 Gyres Project, a collaboration between AMRF, Livable Legacy and Pangaea Explorations, is determined to travel to each of the planet’s major vortexes and document the extent of plastic ...

This Sunday, August 2nd, a major scientific expedition to study the issue of plastic accumulation in the North Pacific Gyre will depart San Diego. The whole venture is between Scripps Institution of ...

In the expeditions it is planning for 2010, Project Kaisei will focus on picking out big, derelict fishing nets, which can snare marine life in a process known as "ghostfishing." ...

Conservancy. The pair took part in a 20 person, three-week expedition in August on the research vessel Kaisei that took them from San Francisco to San Diego. This is what they found.