Plastic Bottle Catamaran Crosses The Pacific Ocean 56
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.
The Heyerdahl Connection (Score:5, 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.
Direct image links (Score:1, Informative)
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