Notes on the Ocean

  Over the last few months, we have been sharing our research on microplastics; what they are, how they get into the ocean, why they are an issue a...

For centuries, us sailors have used the power of the wind to move across waters – from small lakes and long canals to crossing our largest oceans ...

Sailors, 2020 was a lot of things – we were disrupted and shaken-up. Things changed, for our societies and importantly, for our environments. Swat...

  In our last plastics feature, we talked about Microplastics; how all plastics break down into tiny, microscopic pieces over time. Because plasti...

  For hundreds of years, historians have defined periods of time by the materials and technologies that made the greatest impact on society and ...

'Microplastics'. We've all heard of them, but what do they mean for us and the waters we sail? Sailors, forget the saying out of sight, out of mi...

Meet the worlds most littered item and the biggest plastic contaminant of our oceans - cigarette butts. Cigarettes are still very popular things, ...

Heard about how our usual sunscreen is damaging our marine life and coral reefs? Sailors, it's time for us to seek reef-safe, ocean-friendly sun...

The first in our series on plastic, we've pulled together some of the top, simple things we Sailors can do to help limit our single-use plastic imp...

  Hello and welcome! We are really excited to share our project with you. As sailors, we love the sea, and Clean Sailors was set up as a way of no...