Plastiki
Subtitle: across the Pacific on plastic, an adventure to save our oceans
By: by David de Rothschild, as told to Jim Gorman  ; foreword by Achim Steiner
Contributors: Gorman, James, 1949-
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781452100029
Subjects: Marine resources conservation; Environmental conditions; Description and travel; Plastiki (Boat)
Description: Explorer, global green leader, and eco-TV host David de Rothschild recounts the extraordinary journey of the Plastiki, an innovative and mostly untested sixty-foot catamaran that floats on 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles. It was a voyage that took de Rothschild and a five-person crew 10,000 miles from the U.S. to Australia, sailing through rarely traveled, dangerous waters, risking their lives to call attention to our fragile oceans. Their exploration included urgent study of ocean pollution, island nations threatened by rising seas, damaged coral reefs, and the acidifying ocean itself and their discoveries are a call to action. Packed with exciting narrative, images, maps, journal entries, plans, and sketches, this is the only firsthand account of what may be the most important adventure of our time.--Publisher description.
Table of contents: title: The birth of a dream; title: Designing Plastiki; title: Sunrise over a synthetic sea; title: Polymers are forever; title: Clear sailing; title: 24 hours on Plastiki; title: Crossing the equator; title: State of the oceans; title: Next stop, oz; title: Epilogue : Sydney, ho!.