Jon Sanders 11th Circumnavigation
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Project Description
The principal goal of the No Plastic Oceans circumnavigation is to bring global attention to the presence of plastic in our oceans, the impact of oceanic plastic pollution on marine life and the manner in which plastic is infiltrating our food chain.
The secondary goal is to collect reliable data from the Southern Hemisphere oceans to supplement data available for Northern Hemisphere oceans. A study using an 11-year data set in the North Pacific estimates a weight of 21,290 metric tons of floating microplastic (Law K, Moret-Ferguson S, Goodwin D, Zettler E, DeForce E, et al. 2014). The distribution of surface plastic debris in the eastern Pacific Ocean was mapped from an 11-year dataset (Environ Sci Technol: doi: 10.1021/es4053076). Reliable and detailed information for the Southern Hemisphere oceans is needed.
We seek sponsors and partners who can help leverage this voyage to heighten global public awareness of the issue.
The project will extend over two years with the initial six months devoted to building and integrating all sponsor and partner efforts, preparing Perie Banou II for the voyage, building global contacts and drop-off points for water samples. The six to 18 months period will be the voyage where Jon will collect water samples every day and periodically drop them off at pre-arranged ports for despatch to marine institutions for analysis. Throughout the voyage Jon’s progress will be monitored every day through on-board cameras streaming live images. The final period 18 to 24 months will target follow-up releasing results of the water born plastic pollution and leveraging Jon’s appearances, articles and media footage to heighten global attention to the presence of plastic in our oceans and the implications for the future of our planet if remedial action is not taken.
Project Details
This voyage and the associated research and dissemination of results are an important step in raising global public awareness of the deteriorating state of our oceans and the potential risk this presents not only to marine creatures but also to human populations.
Current information on plastic pollution in our oceans focuses mainly on macro-plastics with data collected primarily from heavily trafficked shipping routes. The voyage will follow less frequently traveled routes where data is sparse.
The levels of microplastic pollution in the water samples will be objectively assessed using a protocol set down by Curtin University’s Western Australian Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Centre led by John Curtin Distinguished Professor Kliti Grice, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and an internationally renowned organic geochemist. The results of such studies can be lost in scientific journals but in this case, the participation of Jon Sanders making his 11th solo circumnavigation of the globe – never before achieved in the history of our planet – has the potential to raise public awareness.
Goals and Objectives
The primary goal is to attract global public attention to the threat posed by plastic in ocean waters. The objectives that flow from this goal are to (1) measure the presence of micro-plastics in ocean surface water; (2) disseminate those results in conjunction with credible marine institutions; (3) bring the threat of micro-plastic pollution to the attention of the public worldwide.
Timeframe
Departure is projected to be October 2019. The duration of the voyage is minimum 8 months and maximum 12 months. There will be six ports of call where samples will be disembarked and new sample containers boarded. Each port will be an opportunity to re- supply and review the status of the vessel as well as conducting such maintenance and repairs as may be required to ensure the vessel continues in the most seaworthy condition possible.
Summary of Outputs and Results The No Plastic Oceans project will:
- Collect credible data on the levels of micro-plastics in surface water on a specified route encompassing the globe as the basis for a scientific paper on the levels of micro-plastics in surface water on a specified route encompassing the globe.
- Heighten awareness of the general public of the current and potential problems presented by the continuing proliferation of plastics in our oceans.
- Produce a series of journal articles in newspapers and magazines.
The No Plastic Oceans project will contribute to raising public awareness of the current and potential problems presented by the continuing proliferation of plastics in our oceans and therein contribute to support for further scientific research on the subject, public awareness and behaviour change towards pollution of our oceans, public participation in small-scale local projects to clean-up and prevent plastic pollution of our oceans and waterways,
Project Members
Project Leader: Jon Sanders, AO, OBE, CitWA, FAIN
Project Role/Relevant Skills: Skipper and solo circumnavigator. Jon was inducted into the Single-Handed Sailor's Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, USA in 1991, awarded the Blue Water Medal (without date) by the Cruising Club of America in 2016, the Chichester Award by the Royal Yacht Squadron (1983), the James Cook Award and inducted into the Australian Sailing Hall of Fame in 2018. Jon is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Navigation (date), a fellow of Curtin University and a recipient of the Centenary Medal, Order of the British Empire and made an officer of the Order of Australia.
His records include:
1970 First solo circumnavigation of the globe sailing east to west mostly sailing through tropics.
1981-82 Double non-stop solo circumnavigation of the globe sailing west to east via Southern Ocean.
Triple non-stop solo circumnavigation which the Guinness World Book of Records cites this as "the longest distance sailed non-stop by any vessel". (71,023 nautical miles)
First-time singlehanded (solo) sailing records include:
Five non-stop circumnavigations of the globe (in the years 1981-1987)
Five Cape Horn roundings (one east-west and four west-east)
Five Cape Horn roundings during non-stop circumnavigate ons
Four roundings of the five southernmost capes
One circumnavigation using the east-west route
Four circumnavigations using the west-east route
Circumnavigate non-stop via Cape Horn west about and east about.
First person to circumnavigate Antarctica solo and non-stop and unassisted
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Other voyages and transits include:
Indian Ocean (16 times)
Atlantic Ocean (13 times)
Pacific Ocean (13 times)
Australian seaboard, west-to-east and east-to-west (47 times)
Cape Horn (five times)
Cape of Good Hope (12 times)
Panama Canal (seven times)
Suez Canal (four times)
Jon has also competed in seven Sydney to Hobart Yacht races, the Parmelia Race Plymouth to Perth and the Cape to Rio de Janeiro three times.
Project Co-ordinator: Stephen Davis
Project Role/Relevant Skills: Project Co-ordinator. Sailor and member of RPYC. Advisor to Heads of Government and major project manager for more than 30 years.
Project Logistics: Morgan Flower
Project Role/Relevant Skills: Project Logistics and in voyage communications. Sailor and member of FSC & RPYC.
Project Description
The principal goal of the No Plastic Oceans circumnavigation is to bring global attention to the presence of plastic in our oceans, the impact of oceanic plastic pollution on marine life and the manner in which plastic is infiltrating our food chain.
The secondary goal is to collect reliable data from the Southern Hemisphere oceans to supplement data available for Northern Hemisphere oceans. A study using an 11-year data set in the North Pacific estimates a weight of 21,290 metric tons of floating microplastic (Law K, Moret-Ferguson S, Goodwin D, Zettler E, DeForce E, et al. 2014). The distribution of surface plastic debris in the eastern Pacific Ocean was mapped from an 11-year dataset (Environ Sci Technol: doi: 10.1021/es4053076). Reliable and detailed information for the Southern Hemisphere oceans is needed.
We seek sponsors and partners who can help leverage this voyage to heighten global public awareness of the issue.
The project will extend over two years with the initial six months devoted to building and integrating all sponsor and partner efforts, preparing Perie Banou II for the voyage, building global contacts and drop-off points for water samples. The six to 18 months period will be the voyage where Jon will collect water samples every day and periodically drop them off at pre-arranged ports for despatch to marine institutions for analysis. Throughout the voyage Jon’s progress will be monitored every day through on-board cameras streaming live images. The final period 18 to 24 months will target follow-up releasing results of the water born plastic pollution and leveraging Jon’s appearances, articles and media footage to heighten global attention to the presence of plastic in our oceans and the implications for the future of our planet if remedial action is not taken.
Project Details
This voyage and the associated research and dissemination of results are an important step in raising global public awareness of the deteriorating state of our oceans and the potential risk this presents not only to marine creatures but also to human populations.
Current information on plastic pollution in our oceans focuses mainly on macro-plastics with data collected primarily from heavily trafficked shipping routes. The voyage will follow less frequently traveled routes where data is sparse.
The levels of microplastic pollution in the water samples will be objectively assessed using a protocol set down by Curtin University’s Western Australian Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Centre led by John Curtin Distinguished Professor Kliti Grice, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and an internationally renowned organic geochemist. The results of such studies can be lost in scientific journals but in this case, the participation of Jon Sanders making his 11th solo circumnavigation of the globe – never before achieved in the history of our planet – has the potential to raise public awareness.
Goals and Objectives
The primary goal is to attract global public attention to the threat posed by plastic in ocean waters. The objectives that flow from this goal are to (1) measure the presence of micro-plastics in ocean surface water; (2) disseminate those results in conjunction with credible marine institutions; (3) bring the threat of micro-plastic pollution to the attention of the public worldwide.
Timeframe
Departure is projected to be October 2019. The duration of the voyage is minimum 8 months and maximum 12 months. There will be six ports of call where samples will be disembarked and new sample containers boarded. Each port will be an opportunity to re- supply and review the status of the vessel as well as conducting such maintenance and repairs as may be required to ensure the vessel continues in the most seaworthy condition possible.
Summary of Outputs and Results The No Plastic Oceans project will:
- Collect credible data on the levels of micro-plastics in surface water on a specified route encompassing the globe as the basis for a scientific paper on the levels of micro-plastics in surface water on a specified route encompassing the globe.
- Heighten awareness of the general public of the current and potential problems presented by the continuing proliferation of plastics in our oceans.
- Produce a series of journal articles in newspapers and magazines.
The No Plastic Oceans project will contribute to raising public awareness of the current and potential problems presented by the continuing proliferation of plastics in our oceans and therein contribute to support for further scientific research on the subject, public awareness and behaviour change towards pollution of our oceans, public participation in small-scale local projects to clean-up and prevent plastic pollution of our oceans and waterways,
Project Members
Project Leader: Jon Sanders, AO, OBE, CitWA, FAIN
Project Role/Relevant Skills: Skipper and solo circumnavigator. Jon was inducted into the Single-Handed Sailor's Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, USA in 1991, awarded the Blue Water Medal (without date) by the Cruising Club of America in 2016, the Chichester Award by the Royal Yacht Squadron (1983), the James Cook Award and inducted into the Australian Sailing Hall of Fame in 2018. Jon is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Navigation (date), a fellow of Curtin University and a recipient of the Centenary Medal, Order of the British Empire and made an officer of the Order of Australia.
His records include:
1970 First solo circumnavigation of the globe sailing east to west mostly sailing through tropics.
1981-82 Double non-stop solo circumnavigation of the globe sailing west to east via Southern Ocean.
Triple non-stop solo circumnavigation which the Guinness World Book of Records cites this as "the longest distance sailed non-stop by any vessel". (71,023 nautical miles)
First-time singlehanded (solo) sailing records include:
Five non-stop circumnavigations of the globe (in the years 1981-1987)
Five Cape Horn roundings (one east-west and four west-east)
Five Cape Horn roundings during non-stop circumnavigate ons
Four roundings of the five southernmost capes
One circumnavigation using the east-west route
Four circumnavigations using the west-east route
Circumnavigate non-stop via Cape Horn west about and east about.
First person to circumnavigate Antarctica solo and non-stop and unassisted
• •
Other voyages and transits include:
Indian Ocean (16 times)
Atlantic Ocean (13 times)
Pacific Ocean (13 times)
Australian seaboard, west-to-east and east-to-west (47 times)
Cape Horn (five times)
Cape of Good Hope (12 times)
Panama Canal (seven times)
Suez Canal (four times)
Jon has also competed in seven Sydney to Hobart Yacht races, the Parmelia Race Plymouth to Perth and the Cape to Rio de Janeiro three times.
Project Co-ordinator: Stephen Davis
Project Role/Relevant Skills: Project Co-ordinator. Sailor and member of RPYC. Advisor to Heads of Government and major project manager for more than 30 years.
Project Logistics: Morgan Flower
Project Role/Relevant Skills: Project Logistics and in voyage communications. Sailor and member of FSC & RPYC.
Organizer
Jon Sanders
Organizer
Nedlands WA
