When we saw the extraction zone getting on deck,
we were all saying “wow this is a good one”…
Excellent!
Look at that!
Tons, tons of trash from the ocean. Huge pile of ghostnests, a lot of it is
boxed up already, lots of rigids as well. And we found a lot of the pieces that we
deployed as a test. We’re running pretty high efficiency, yeah happy, really happy.
I see success!
Flying through it!
Plastic bottles for oil, detergent, hand wash, everything.
Every little thing is gonna be alright…
It was difficult of course to sort all this trash but we had a plan.
First to go with the big things. So we have these three groups:
big ghostnests, hard plastics, and all the small things.
Then we basically take these and put them in big bags,
we take the bag and we weigh the bag, we tag it, and we seal it.
We follow a standard to certify that this plastic is actually genuine ocean plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Basically we are seeing this extraction as a success, and it is a success, but it is important
also to realise that not everything is going well all the time you know,
we have unexpected events,
things to repair as well on the system.
Good morning everybody, we’ll just kick off.
So yesterday we started the deployment of the system, everything went very well and
according to plan I’d say.
Unfortunately we’ve also discovered something wrong at the interface
between the wing section and the retention zone.
We’ll go out in the boat this morning to see if that’s something that can be repaired in the water.
If it can’t be repaired it unfortunately means that we have to recover the entire system back to the Trader and do the repair there.
I don’t know if you can see behind me but the weather is picking up, the wind is picking up.
So we replaced two lashings between the flip over net and the waterline rope.
Yeah two guys held it and Alli just went through and…
We have a magician from Iceland who has saved the day.
So we thought that there was going to have to be a full system recovery because there is a problem
up at the top end, but fortunately Alli over there was able to go and repair it
from the FRC (Fast Rescue Craft). Weather is coming up tomorrow so we would have lost all
the weekend, but now we’re able to get this in the water today and we’ll get towing.
Now we’re on a straight route, so I’m very happy about that.
But I’m also working with very nice people, and good working people.
Everybody is giving hand, and we’re working like a team.
This is Saturday, and the weather was up on Thursday. So we had a day of it being pretty
choppy, and we had a look at what’s going on and we could see there was a little bit of damage,
there was a fender that came loose, we just removed that now.
We’ll have a look at the system to see if there is any tears or any damage that’s been done.
If you want to improve your design and if you want to improve your efficiency, it’s vital
to monitor how quickly things wear, and from that
you know what points to address in future designs.
Jenny has been in the water for a couple of days already,
we are moving forward, catching plastic for this huge catch that should have a big impact.
We are going to understand more about the limits of the system, the limits Jenny is capable of.
We’ve done all this testing. We’ve done testing going this direction, going that direction,
this speed, that speed, different coordination between the two vessels, and now the focus is
just to get as much plastic as we possibly can and prove that this is the way to clear the ocean.