We have had a little setback back in Victoria,
because our vessels were actually busy fighting fire
on a container ship near Victoria.
So we had to delay a bit our departure...
There is a fire on a container ship at anchorage 1
The smoke is highly toxic and flammable.
The blue vessels are gone...
They’re helping how they can.
Luckily we have the wings on the quayside
so we will continue doing that so we are ready
whenever the firefighting is finished
so that's what we're doing,
prepare the wings,
put the computers in the bags
and get some fresh air, I like it.
Lovely, lovely...
I should have brought my sunscreen...
Keep going. That's what matters.
On and on and on...
Little minions gotta stay busy,
otherwise we get depressed...
We are doing whatever it takes.
the wings will be finished when the vessels are coming in,
No worries.
We responded to this fire on the container ship
so we were using the fire hoses on the top of the vessels
to put a lot of water on the edges of the fire
to try to prevent it from spreading.
If we hadn't done that the fire would have spread,
and the container ship could have completely burnt out.
Now we can get back to picking up plastic.
Six weeks harvesting plastic,
mainly,
so that's good.
Let's see if I can break the record,
that's the plan.
I have Yannick with me,
he is the guy at The Ocean Cleanup who makes the card
where you can see the concentration,
so I told him his most important job is that we're in the orange spot...
the orange spot is where there is most plastic,
so that's what we're aiming for.
This one is 126 miles south from this one.
Over the past few years,
the big change was going from passive to active propelling.
This is allowing us to hunt the highest densities areas...
the so-called "hotspots",
so places where you can have really, really high density of plastic,
to be way more efficient.
The idea is to study how do these hotspots move,
how do they form, how long do they last,
what their size is,
and then try to sweep as much as possible.
I'm really suprised that I am not seasick yet,
so that's a good thing I guess,
but we will see how it goes, because in the coming days
we should have higher and higher waves...
We're at roughly two to three meters waveheight right now
and it should increase up until five, six-ish.
we've taken a bit of a battering last night...
the decision was made by the captain to turn south
to avoid some of the worst heavy weather,
which was absolutely the right thing to do.
Some of the wave height is still fairly significant,
we need to remember that.
Otherwise, we're all a little tired,
it's day four of the bad weather,
some still feel a little seasick,
we're getting at that point where fatigue sets in.
The new coordinates are now 142.28 degrees west
and 31.52 degrees north,
all in decimal degrees.
There is no need to stay in this weather
if we can pick up some plastic in another place with calm weather,
so let's hit further south.
We may not collect as much plastic as we expect.
Now we're not at the heart of the patch,
we are down south, but near some interesting area
where we might have some plastic.
We've had two successful trips before this one,
we're catching more and more plastic, and really proving,
even to ourselves that it works
But that was in Summer.
We're now arriving in Winter times, meaning Winter weather.
And what we will try to discover soon is how well can she operate
in Winter weather.
Getting your hands dirty doing this feels really good.
We had a bit of repairs to do
before launching the system,
so I repaired the extraction section,
and I will carry on doing that with the wings as well
while we deploy and we will see how it goes.
Hopefully, we will be able to have Jenny put in the water
before the end of the day,
and be able to start collecting plastic this night.
It's been a long time coming,
but hopefully the weather will be nice to us
and everything goes smoothly.