The funniest thing is like during all the drone flights and all the inspections you sometimes
notice a particular piece of plastic, maybe it's very big or very bright and now in this pile those
pieces of plastic are there so you, you get to know your pieces of plastic
you're like, oh two days ago, I saw this piece it went in from the left side, and
then it got stuck there and there but then that big wave came along and then pushed it on again
and it all came out so dramatically with everything
bouncing off to all sides like this mountain collapsing.
We are recovering Jenny. We've deployed it three times, this is the third recovery as soon
as Jenny is back onboard, back in her little cradle, we're sailing back home to Victoria.
To go out there and do what we've done and catch over eight tons of plastic
with a system that wasn't functioning most of the time due to the camera skiff it
it's amazing and going forwards we can make that a lot better
so we'll see what the next shift do, and I think they're going to land even more plastic than we do
Even though we did very few tests the tests that we did do have showed us that we can consistently
harvest plastic and now we are going home with a good pile of plastics on the other boat
and a working system behind our boat
That's actually quite a success.
So we are now about halfway the test campaign of system 2, Jenny,
in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and things are actually starting to look very,
very promising where the system is behaving well, and we see significant amounts of trash
coming on deck from these first few short tests that we've done so far
but we're not there yet. We still have a a lot of tests to go, so we now make a brief stop
in Canada to change the crew, and we should be back out again in about a week from now
when we'll be focusing on two things to complete the test campaign. One is that we're going to do
tests with tagged plastic to see how efficient the cleanup system is, and then we're also going
to do some longer duration tests, and now those I think will be very, very interesting because
if everything goes well, we might be able to see a system just completely filled with plastic
during those tests and of course that's something we've been looking forward to
for all these years it will really be the proof of the pudding that it's truly working
and then we have a tool to clean up the patch so
either way, it's going to be very interesting so fingers crossed for the next few weeks.
We are back in the port of Victoria, and we are about to step onto land once again
after being at sea for six weeks.
We're good to go? If you like, join me on to land.
it was a crazy experience. I've never, I've sailed for many years but
never been out for six weeks with not seeing shore. And you come in,
and you saw the mountains and you, you could feel yesterday we could feel the smell of shore.
It's a different smell so and now I'm just here and I didn't get land sick you know so that's good
Oh man it is weird. It's the craziest thing is when you when you walk,
I walked outside this morning to change the GoPros, and I went (inhales), and you smell it.
This is good this is definitely good that's good so
and 8.2 tons - that's good
And most of the crew haven't been away from land for as long as we've just been even the captain
that was the first time he's ever been
where he can't see land for six weeks so yeah this is new to most people
and a decent cup of coffee
So the plastic from offshore it's landed here it's been weighed offshore and now
we wait a second time so all the things are are sealed. Fedde is taking a video with the weight
and the number of the container, I write it down and that's how we ensure the chain of custody.
Shift 2 will catch more that's why Dan is on two shifts so for sure,
he's on the one that catches the most.