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As a child of the 70’s all I’ve known is plastic. A brilliant material used in many applications, plastic is here to stay. Like many people, the issue of single-use plastic pollution raised in the media over the past decade has always caught my attention, but I had been truly uninformed of the gigantic challenges we face to rectify the problem and stem the damaging effects it is having on our oceans, that is until now.
Having supported the PLASTIKI Expedition in 2009, a brilliant alliance commissioned by David de Rothschild of Adventure Ecology to raise awareness, I now find my focus and 23 years experience in superyachting, solely aimed to uniting the industry with a nonbiased, nonprofit initiative that can make a real and immediate change to its dependency on single-use plastics and consumption as a whole.
Through the CLEAR OCEAN PACT, a foundation formed in 2017 sparked by the need to “do something” about plastic pollution, I find myself at the beginning of a new chapter in my yachting career with potentially the biggest challenge ahead - uniting an industry to tackle a cause together that is greater than any one organisation within it.