Beautifully said Ben ❤ what kind of legacy are we leaving to our children? I absolutely love this video! So sweet to see the kiddos helping out with the trash. I can’t believe all the stuff you guys found. Incredible. Very eye-opening. Wish you and your family safe travels! Looking forward to the next video❤
Appreciate you highlighting the issue. Everyone needs to do their part. It's easy to rationalize, "oh it is just one item". You showed what happens when millions of "just one item" end up in our oceans., thousands of miles away. 😥
🙌🏼💖You guys have a TERRIFIC channel! I think what I love the most is your unspoken way of bringing up your children to not fear but have a healthy outlook to seek to understand, love and respect the earth and it’s people. Continued Fair Winds, Calm Seas, and multi-Blessings to you all!
I love you shared the reality of boating to far off lands and how humans need to become better stewards of all the blessing and beauty world wide. It truly is a global world we are all connected.
Thanks for great videos throughout the years! This one was quite insightful, albeit not a click bait! Love you for being yourselves. No invented drama, just truth about how it is. And, if there was a drama, it was because of specific medical condition - you never faked it or ever exaggerated! I hope your kids become even nicer people than you two! Keep on keeping on!
I wish we all believed it was a small world and didn’t push country first political nonsense. You guys are doing a great job bringing awareness and we appreciate it immensely!!!
You have a great voice for these vids.. Calm and clear.. Been with you guys for a long time and I concider you all family.. Enjoy your adventures and have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Peace and love you all Rolfie
😊this is how Clean up Australia was created Ian Keirnan an Aussie yachtie discovered the vast amount of garbage in the sea back in the 90’s so every year hundreds of thousands of people and groups around Australia get in and clean up Australia the waterways and land it’s amazing. We’ve been up the Top End of Australia and the vast amounts of garbage washed onto the coast line is amazing still….😢
I'm not sure who's luckier... you Ben, who get to record and narrate these fabulous experiences - or us, who you share them with?? Thank you for sharing your wholesome expedition Safe travels.
Thank you for this week's video. Extremely informative. I show these topic videos to my kids so they understand why my wife and I preach recycling, refusing plastic shopping bags & always having our own cloth bags or paper instead of plastic and always thinking of how and where we dispose of our trash.
Thanks for the video. Much appreciation for addressing the plastic waste issue. You don’t show what you do with the waste on a remote island or nets on the ocean. When there is no landfill, we collect and dig or burn.
I was on a cruise ship in the area for 3 months, the ship was there maybe about a year. Every night they would dump all of their garbage (2000 passengers) in black plastic bags - 7 nights a week. Huge broken machinery went over as well. In the daytime, everything would go out the portholes, dirty sheets, towels… mainly because the crew knew their co workers in the laundry were overworked
Some of it.... Microplastics mostly sink to the ocean floors or get hoovered up by filter feeders like corrals sponges shell fish... and zooplankton .. then it ends up in living tissues and the complex foodchains.. The other place that guarantees it gets everywhere on the planet.. The nano and micro plastics in storms and with waves become airborne and we end up breathing them in they have also reached both Poles into the farthest deserts jungles and the top of Everest... 😬 The nets and ropes ... ghost nets or gear is the greatest threat to marine life as well as safe navigation.
I saw the "garbage collector ship" in Tahiti and Moorea for weeks over the past winter but it was moored most of the time and not really doing much as the young crew spent a lot of time ashore.
Ashley wasn’t that the sunshine shell? Those were supposedly hard to find in Hi. The island off of Kauai-Niihau ? Don’t quote me tho but jewelry made from them were expensive. I used to live in Maui and worked in galleries.
You have shown us how hard sailing around the world can be, but life in general is hard and yet you seem to be on vacation all the time with traveling the world. Very envious and jealous and yet, glad I'm not fighting boat maintenance. I don't know how you do it being as tall as you are. I'm 6'2" and know what working in confined spaces is like and it sure isn't easy!!
After seeing all these trash on these beautifull pure beaches and nature,it reminded me of the Chief Seattle' s letter... Great job guys. Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Everybody should learn that speech/ letter of 1855 or 56 it's a powerful evocation of the old Palaeolithic moral order...that sounds down through the years and into our future. There's also this shorter quote from Dune, by Frank Herbert. A sophisticated human can become primitive. What this really means is that the human's way of life changes. Old values change, become linked to the landscape with it's plants and animals. This new existence requires a working knowledge of those multiplex and cross-linked events usually referred to as Nature. It requires a measure of respect for the inertial power within such natural systems. When a human gains this knowledge and respect, that is called "being primitive". The converse, of course, is equally true: the primitive human can become sophisticated, but not without incurring dreadful psychological damage. Frank Herbert
Woo hoo nice one! Here on Palawan when we walk the beaches there is allot of plastic too, not quite the amount you show. Occasionally they organize beach cleanup events now and then!
We find a lot of bottles on our beach here in Matagorda, Tx. Our bottles are green, though. I find it very strange and don't know why there are so many. I did think they were everywhere.
Ashley, when your husband says, "You look beautiful," then you are beautiful, there is no need to doubt it. Your response sounded as though you didn't agree. Not trying to be critical.
Well he is the only woman he sees for an extended period of time. I’m just playing… You should definitely fall in love with the eyes. That’s the only part that doesn’t change.
siete fantastici , vi seguo sempre con ammirazione e grande rispetto per le scelte di vita che avete fatto . Sul tema rifiuti , mi piace pensare come voi che in primis non vanno creati , acquistando con intelligenza , poi non vanno dispersi nell'ambiente e terzo , se non puoi trasformarlo ,non devi nemmeno prenderlo e nel tuo piccolo , cosi contribuisci all'ecologia circolare.. che vuol dire massimo riuso e infinite risorse.
As a history buff, it is kind of cool to think pre-Columbian age Peruvians could have settled the French Polynesian islands. It's also kind of interesting to see how polluted our oceans are. Made me recall hiking the West Coast Trail in BC. The one thing we noticed was how much stuff people just left behind. Have a great week. I'm looking forward to the next video.
@ when I was a child about the age of eight me and my friend were playing in an old barn we found a bunch of these containers. He opened it smelt it. He went in to convulsions and instantly blind in about two weeks later he was pronounced brain dead, and not too long after that his parents pulled the plug. I still don’t know what was in it to this day, but I remember getting extremely dizzy and I was 20 feet away when he opened it I remember him screaming that he couldn’t see and he couldn’t breathe. We got out of the barn walked up to the main road. He collapsed. Ambulance picked us up. He stayed in the hospital. I went home the following day
@@Illuminati300geez! So sorry for the toll that has taken on you. Thanks for sharing. People should hear this. On old friend once told me to be careful what I touched. It has stuck with me. This will too.
Awesome Nahoa!! 💚 Maybe you are most suitable to become advocates for HEMP. It makes fuel and food. Concrete and plastics. Non-toxic. Oh yes, and ropes as well! Look into it. 🙏🙂
hi ben, what an amazing chanel you guys have. can you please tell me what is the mic that you are holding and what camera are you using with it ? thanks
I love watching these awesome videos on Sundays!!!! Thank you so much 🙋🏻♀️🙏🏻❤️ Thank you for sharing your lives with us all. WONDERFUL HUMANS!!!!! Beautiful words.
I love the idea of creating building blocks out of plastics in solar ovens ... it's not like they've gotta melt it all the way down especially if they have a hydraulic press ( maybe even powered by steam from the same solar ovens ?? ) How awesome would it be to build your own beach house with overgrown Lego bricks !
Hmm.. I honestly think best thing would be just some people/organization just fashion some kind of garbage collection place on these islands, maybe just stake out some fenced area with wire fence or something so wind doesn't take the garbage. And maybe also leave some sturdy contractor bags there. Then just go collect trash that's there every year or something. Essentially this could mostly rely on some altruistic people. Also def don't smell that 21:40 kinda of bottle again. I'm not sure, but it had looked a bit like it could have been some chemical bottle, those can be very toxic.
Absolutely right guys. I'm on the Caribbean Coast of South America and it's just as bad here. We may moan and complain, but yes, we should shout loudly about it. The various initiatives don't seem to be having an impact. I really hope your video helps in some way. Thanks.
The initiative must come from each individual human being. This 1 st. Initiative could be to stop purchasing plastic. Decrease the individual demand to stop the supply, To stop the garbage
The melt and make into building material sounds like a great idea if it has an output worth the labor, otherwise burning is going to finally get rid of the trash and it's not all bad because carbon is plant and tree food. The absolute best solution is to not over consume and be wasteful.
I imagine that the refrigerant vessels that you frequently find get washed from land like the coconuts that you show. They are buoyant so they float and they are round so they roll and they have a big wind profile so it wouldn't take much from them to be taken from somebody's land and get swept into a creek.
What struck me was the large number of plastic bottle caps that find their way to shore. On a past trip to Belize we spent part of a day collecting trash along the shoreline of Half Moon Caye. It took no time at all to fill a large bag with pkastic junk…flip flops, milk crate, bottles, bottle caps…even a couple of tooth brushes! A back eddy behind a nature reserve was nothing but a mass of floating junk. I asked one of the guides why they didn’t use the opportunity to educate their youth by getting them out to collect this stuff instead of just showing them the undersea life and his answer was (paraphrased), “because there will just be more the next day”.
Brilliant educational episode. Sad to see the debris from the fishing industry and individuals, good idea burying it, as it will probably be blown back into the sea! I know that there are several innovative environmentalists collecting sea rubbish around the oceans. Big job hey!! Everyone's help is appreciated, like your family collecting and placing in the centre of the island. It always bothers me when I see the ropes and loose netting drifting, kills so much innocent sea life. Job well done 🧡🧡🧡
Refrigerate bottle used in fishing industry. It's used to keep thier systems working. Tuna needs to ne frozen ad soon as possible. Big ships can have 20 or 30 of these just for one 4 to 6 week trip. They go through alot of those bottles.
Thank you for sharing, plastic continues to wash up everywhere on every coast. Hopefully kids like yours will come up with future solutions. Its time to make the petrochemical industries take responsibility.
You are very right to care about the plastics floating everywhere. And the carelessness of people. I'm curious though as awesome as I believe you are do you look up at the skies where chemical spraying is splayed out? You are both very smart and awesome parents but have you noticed the difference in natural and beautiful clouds you've seen most of your lives and then the very ugly and obvious stripes and hazy clouding of the skies. Streaks,pea soup haze? I feel even more concern about how these affect us and our planet. I love you guys and I love how you teach your children fearlessness ❤ I have followed you for years before you had Willa and can't believe how big they are getting. Very few children experience such adventures!
It is likely that the refrigerators of the refrigerated shipments are leaking, so they have to be constantly refilled. These bottles are not refillable and are illegal in many countries because they are not registered in the environmental protection system. If they are found with these bottles during a possible inspection, they would receive a serious penalty. If you find one with a good paint job, it will be written on it! Happy sailing to you, I have been watching your videos for 6 years!
As hubby and I are approaching retirement age in about 10 years we're looking into the possibilities of moving abroad. Thailand, Bali, Ecuador look nice and TH-camrs make these videos showing how cheap it is to live there. Rarely do they show the trash filling the rivers and all the pollution you have to deal with. The Wynns made a video about the trash in the South Pacific islands. Trash is every where. In LA county in California, all the trash from the rivers ends up right in the ocean after a big rain. We had access to a sailboat there and would see a whole trail of it reaching far north to far south of the metropolitan area. Lazy people on the beaches will bury their trash in the sand because they don't want to haul it back to their cars. I volunteered for a beach clean-up in Redondo Beach, California and we saw heaps of empty beer cans buried. They think if it's out of sight, it just magically goes away....as if the beach is their new landfill. Thanks for the video today. You guys always make great content!!
I think the refrigerator bottles come form ships that have a bad maintained cooling system. They have small leaks on pumps shafts and valves shaft. To maintain cooling for mounts at sea you need more gas . Bottle empty they go overboard. Welcome to the massive mostly uncontrollable fisheries.
21:38 I wouldn’t open random bottles like that- you don’t have any idea what it could have in it. It could be a drug or something poisonous. I used to do a lot of work in remote deserts in the US. We were always concerned about finding waste from manufacturing methamphetamine.
Absolutely. I was on a longline freezer boat back in the early 90s and we did 45 day trips for Tuna Sword in the mid Atlantic ridge between Africa and West Indies. I watched them throw over 20 bottles or more after repairing a blown out freezer line. It's actually legal under MARPOL because it's considered metal and should degrade but it always ends up on a beach because they float.
As a TH-cam'er you probably don't watch other sailing channels as much as non TH-camers. If so, you'd know just about every channel mentions and does episodes on garbage. Some have joined together and created machines that make other products from beach plastics. In the past 10 years, the problem has exploded, and awareness has grown exponentially. Clean Ocean Sailing 👍
Precious Plastics from Melbourne Australia. They have been talked about by a few boaties. Not cheap. I think one group used the machine to recycle plastics into other stuff to sell.
We’re connected to businesses that use garbage to create energy and garbage to building blocks for houses. And the programs are being roles out globally. There’s hope. Garbage dies have a lot of value and people are starting to realise
Hey Ben and Ashley! Why not put the drone in the air prior to going through the passes! No need to rely on satellite. Rely on your own satellite in real time! :)
When I was a kid there were glass returnable bottles, but... You have a much smaller return to your shareholders if your industry has to clean up the mess it makes to do business.
Maybe every visiting sailor can collect it in a net and securely drag it to the next land fill processing centre in Tahiti for a fee or reward, drag it like a drogue so it's not taking space on the boat, unless the government employs a boat collecting plastic on all 118 islands if they cared
Beautifully said Ben ❤ what kind of legacy are we leaving to our children? I absolutely love this video! So sweet to see the kiddos helping out with the trash. I can’t believe all the stuff you guys found. Incredible. Very eye-opening. Wish you and your family safe travels! Looking forward to the next video❤
Appreciate you highlighting the issue. Everyone needs to do their part. It's easy to rationalize, "oh it is just one item". You showed what happens when millions of "just one item" end up in our oceans., thousands of miles away. 😥
🙌🏼💖You guys have a TERRIFIC channel! I think what I love the most is your unspoken way of bringing up your children to not fear but have a healthy outlook to seek to understand, love and respect the earth and it’s people. Continued Fair Winds, Calm Seas, and multi-Blessings to you all!
I can count on you to produce unique and important content. Thank you.
Thank you, Ben. Your vids are always wonderful.
Great video guys!
Love you guys! Thank you for addressing this issue. Not preaching, just sharing. It's good. Safe travels. ❤
I love you shared the reality of boating to far off lands and how humans need to become better stewards of all the blessing and beauty world wide. It truly is a global world we are all connected.
fantastic again, he says with tears on cheeks,
observe not "scold or preach" was nice too
Thanks for great videos throughout the years! This one was quite insightful, albeit not a click bait! Love you for being yourselves. No invented drama, just truth about how it is. And, if there was a drama, it was because of specific medical condition - you never faked it or ever exaggerated! I hope your kids become even nicer people than you two! Keep on keeping on!
So cool to hear Bodhi talking. My how time flies.
Also, I agree with Ben… You look great Ashley. 🙂
I wish we all believed it was a small world and didn’t push country first political nonsense. You guys are doing a great job bringing awareness and we appreciate it immensely!!!
such beautiful scenery , spectacular even with the trash .it's fun to watch the children watching the wildlife . Thank you for sharing .🎉
Thank you for tackling this topic. It's sad but eye-opening. Another great video from you two.
You have a great voice for these vids.. Calm and clear.. Been with you guys for a long time and I concider you all family.. Enjoy your adventures and have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Peace and love you all Rolfie
What a great adventure your kids had. I bet they’ll remember it as one of the best days.
Great video. Thank you ❤️❤️❤️
😊this is how Clean up Australia was created Ian Keirnan an Aussie yachtie discovered the vast amount of garbage in the sea back in the 90’s so every year hundreds of thousands of people and groups around Australia get in and clean up Australia the waterways and land it’s amazing. We’ve been up the Top End of Australia and the vast amounts of garbage washed onto the coast line is amazing still….😢
I'm not sure who's luckier... you Ben, who get to record and narrate these fabulous experiences - or us, who you share them with?? Thank you for sharing your wholesome expedition
Safe travels.
What is going on with the boat build? Much love from the coast of Maine!🤙
Great video and so insightful. Thank you.
We carry a 44 gallon drum with screw top on the back deck. We have even filled it on trips in the southern ocean.
Thank you for this week's video. Extremely informative. I show these topic videos to my kids so they understand why my wife and I preach recycling, refusing plastic shopping bags & always having our own cloth bags or paper instead of plastic and always thinking of how and where we dispose of our trash.
Thanks for raising awareness
@21:40 that looks like a medicinal Iodine bottle we used to have as kids, the brown liquid also align with that.
Such a great video!
So very informative. Thank you for this episode. It was really educational. I am living vicariously through your channel.
Thanks for the video. Much appreciation for addressing the plastic waste issue. You don’t show what you do with the waste on a remote island or nets on the ocean. When there is no landfill, we collect and dig or burn.
Interesting information about the sad part of sailing. Thank you for the documentary. Stay safe and enjoy your sailing.
Always amazing videos!
I so apprecite what you do . restoring the planet to viability is our existential responsibility. Thank you friend --
don
I was on a cruise ship in the area for 3 months, the ship was there maybe about a year. Every night they would dump all of their garbage (2000 passengers) in black plastic bags - 7 nights a week. Huge broken machinery went over as well. In the daytime, everything would go out the portholes, dirty sheets, towels… mainly because the crew knew their co workers in the laundry were overworked
😲😥I’ve never gone cruising, and never will. The cruise ship(s)’ actions are deplorable and should be reported‼
💡Something curious, the ocean ALWAYS returns to humans the garbage they throw away.
Some of it.... Microplastics mostly sink to the ocean floors or get hoovered up by filter feeders like corrals sponges shell fish... and zooplankton .. then it ends up in living tissues and the complex foodchains..
The other place that guarantees it gets everywhere on the planet..
The nano and micro plastics in storms and with waves become airborne and we end up breathing them in they have also reached both Poles into the farthest deserts jungles and the top of Everest... 😬
The nets and ropes ... ghost nets or gear is the greatest threat to marine life as well as safe navigation.
great video guys
Thank you a pleasant Sunday afternoon getting over 25 c., of snow here in Alberta, I can appreciate your world in the pacific.
I like your clips, they motivate me a lot, thanks
I always look forward to your videos
I saw the "garbage collector ship" in Tahiti and Moorea for weeks over the past winter but it was moored most of the time and not really doing much as the young crew spent a lot of time ashore.
I absolutely love your beautiful family
and we talk about Nahoa II ?
Ashley wasn’t that the sunshine shell? Those were supposedly hard to find in Hi. The island off of Kauai-Niihau ? Don’t quote me tho but jewelry made from them were expensive. I used to live in Maui and worked in galleries.
I would put every penitentiary system in the world to the cleaning and recovery of natural spaces!!
Well done!
You have shown us how hard sailing around the world can be, but life in general is hard and yet you seem to be on vacation all the time with traveling the world. Very envious and jealous and yet, glad I'm not fighting boat maintenance. I don't know how you do it being as tall as you are. I'm 6'2" and know what working in confined spaces is like and it sure isn't easy!!
After seeing all these trash on these beautifull pure beaches and nature,it reminded me of the Chief Seattle' s letter...
Great job guys.
Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Everybody should learn that speech/ letter of 1855 or 56 it's a powerful evocation of the old Palaeolithic moral order...that sounds down through the years and into our future.
There's also this shorter quote from Dune, by Frank Herbert.
A sophisticated human can become primitive. What this really means is that the human's way of life changes. Old values change, become linked to the landscape with it's plants and animals. This new existence requires a working knowledge of those multiplex and cross-linked events usually referred to as Nature. It requires a measure of respect for the inertial power within such natural systems. When a human gains this knowledge and respect, that is called "being primitive". The converse, of course, is equally true: the primitive human can become sophisticated, but not without incurring dreadful psychological damage.
Frank Herbert
🙏🇧🇷❤@@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665
Thankyou for sharing..❤
Woo hoo nice one! Here on Palawan when we walk the beaches there is allot of plastic too, not quite the amount you show. Occasionally they organize beach cleanup events now and then!
Need so many more eyeballs on this. Hope this comment helps the algorithm and lets get this one nominated for next year's YCA award.
6:15 - "A Lot of Nothing". 23:36; 25:11. Good episode.
We find a lot of bottles on our beach here in Matagorda, Tx. Our bottles are green, though. I find it very strange and don't know why there are so many. I did think they were everywhere.
I don't remember seeing any plastic trash there in 1973, 51 years ago. But I believe it will be there 51 years from now, 2075.
Ashley, when your husband says, "You look beautiful," then you are beautiful, there is no need to doubt it. Your response sounded as though you didn't agree. Not trying to be critical.
Well he is the only woman he sees for an extended period of time. I’m just playing… You should definitely fall in love with the eyes. That’s the only part that doesn’t change.
siete fantastici , vi seguo sempre con ammirazione e grande rispetto per le scelte di vita che avete fatto . Sul tema rifiuti , mi piace pensare come voi che in primis non vanno creati , acquistando con intelligenza , poi non vanno dispersi nell'ambiente e terzo , se non puoi trasformarlo ,non devi nemmeno prenderlo e nel tuo piccolo , cosi contribuisci all'ecologia circolare.. che vuol dire massimo riuso e infinite risorse.
Love that you all like to collect and look for little treasures. That is an adventure in itself!
The brown stuff in the vile I'm thinking it might be the brown liquid they use on cuts and wounds. Do you usually ends up staining your skin. 🤔😊
Great video, might make people think about how they dispose of their rubbish!
Mary- I sure hope so.
As a history buff, it is kind of cool to think pre-Columbian age Peruvians could have settled the French Polynesian islands. It's also kind of interesting to see how polluted our oceans are. Made me recall hiking the West Coast Trail in BC. The one thing we noticed was how much stuff people just left behind. Have a great week. I'm looking forward to the next video.
Are you iin Raroia? As a Norwegian I was brought up with Kontiki
French Polynesia's hidden reality! 💔 Paradise and plastic-did you ever imagine garbage could outnumber shells on these shores? 🌊
Bro, don’t ever open a bottle and smell it. My best friend died that way.
Wow! Context please!
@ when I was a child about the age of eight me and my friend were playing in an old barn we found a bunch of these containers. He opened it smelt it. He went in to convulsions and instantly blind in about two weeks later he was pronounced brain dead, and not too long after that his parents pulled the plug. I still don’t know what was in it to this day, but I remember getting extremely dizzy and I was 20 feet away when he opened it I remember him screaming that he couldn’t see and he couldn’t breathe. We got out of the barn walked up to the main road. He collapsed. Ambulance picked us up. He stayed in the hospital. I went home the following day
@@Illuminati300geez! So sorry for the toll that has taken on you. Thanks for sharing. People should hear this. On old friend once told me to be careful what I touched. It has stuck with me. This will too.
Awesome Nahoa!! 💚 Maybe you are most suitable to become advocates for HEMP. It makes fuel and food. Concrete and plastics. Non-toxic. Oh yes, and ropes as well! Look into it. 🙏🙂
hi ben, what an amazing chanel you guys have. can you please tell me what is the mic that you are holding and what camera are you using with it ? thanks
I love watching these awesome videos on Sundays!!!! Thank you so much 🙋🏻♀️🙏🏻❤️ Thank you for sharing your lives with us all. WONDERFUL HUMANS!!!!! Beautiful words.
Thank you for addressing this huge trash problem in our world. Wonderful video as usual! Interesting creatures and superb education for your children.
Nice meeting you ms ashley and kids at yvr airport
Did you ever think of installing a Davey Jones Locker in each hull?
I love the idea of creating building blocks out of plastics in solar ovens ... it's not like they've gotta melt it all the way down especially if they have a hydraulic press ( maybe even powered by steam from the same solar ovens ?? )
How awesome would it be to build your own beach house with overgrown Lego bricks !
Out of recycled/trash plastic of course
Hmm.. I honestly think best thing would be just some people/organization just fashion some kind of garbage collection place on these islands, maybe just stake out some fenced area with wire fence or something so wind doesn't take the garbage. And maybe also leave some sturdy contractor bags there. Then just go collect trash that's there every year or something. Essentially this could mostly rely on some altruistic people.
Also def don't smell that 21:40 kinda of bottle again. I'm not sure, but it had looked a bit like it could have been some chemical bottle, those can be very toxic.
Absolutely right guys. I'm on the Caribbean Coast of South America and it's just as bad here. We may moan and complain, but yes, we should shout loudly about it. The various initiatives don't seem to be having an impact. I really hope your video helps in some way. Thanks.
The initiative must come from each individual human being.
This 1 st. Initiative could be to stop purchasing plastic.
Decrease the individual demand to stop the supply,
To stop the garbage
Beautiful life
The melt and make into building material sounds like a great idea if it has an output worth the labor, otherwise burning is going to finally get rid of the trash and it's not all bad because carbon is plant and tree food. The absolute best solution is to not over consume and be wasteful.
I imagine that the refrigerant vessels that you frequently find get washed from land like the coconuts that you show. They are buoyant so they float and they are round so they roll and they have a big wind profile so it wouldn't take much from them to be taken from somebody's land and get swept into a creek.
What struck me was the large number of plastic bottle caps that find their way to shore. On a past trip to Belize we spent part of a day collecting trash along the shoreline of Half Moon Caye. It took no time at all to fill a large bag with pkastic junk…flip flops, milk crate, bottles, bottle caps…even a couple of tooth brushes! A back eddy behind a nature reserve was nothing but a mass of floating junk. I asked one of the guides why they didn’t use the opportunity to educate their youth by getting them out to collect this stuff instead of just showing them the undersea life and his answer was (paraphrased), “because there will just be more the next day”.
and what next? they dispose of what they collected, say into a garbage container, and then it gets thrown into the sea again.
Brilliant educational episode. Sad to see the debris from the fishing industry and individuals, good idea burying it, as it will probably be blown back into the sea! I know that there are several innovative environmentalists collecting sea rubbish around the oceans. Big job hey!! Everyone's help is appreciated, like your family collecting and placing in the centre of the island. It always bothers me when I see the ropes and loose netting drifting, kills so much innocent sea life. Job well done 🧡🧡🧡
Refrigerate bottle used in fishing industry. It's used to keep thier systems working. Tuna needs to ne frozen ad soon as possible. Big ships can have 20 or 30 of these just for one 4 to 6 week trip. They go through alot of those bottles.
Thank you for sharing, plastic continues to wash up everywhere on every coast. Hopefully kids like yours will come up with future solutions. Its time to make the petrochemical industries take responsibility.
You are very right to care about the plastics floating everywhere. And the carelessness of people. I'm curious though as awesome as I believe you are do you look up at the skies where chemical spraying is splayed out? You are both very smart and awesome parents but have you noticed the difference in natural and beautiful clouds you've seen most of your lives and then the very ugly and obvious stripes and hazy clouding of the skies. Streaks,pea soup haze? I feel even more concern about how these affect us and our planet. I love you guys and I love how you teach your children fearlessness ❤ I have followed you for years before you had Willa and can't believe how big they are getting. Very few children experience such adventures!
Seeing the refrigeration containers are airtight could they be using them as buys for crab traps or nets?
It is likely that the refrigerators of the refrigerated shipments are leaking, so they have to be constantly refilled. These bottles are not refillable and are illegal in many countries because they are not registered in the environmental protection system. If they are found with these bottles during a possible inspection, they would receive a serious penalty. If you find one with a good paint job, it will be written on it! Happy sailing to you, I have been watching your videos for 6 years!
Do you still kite board?
As hubby and I are approaching retirement age in about 10 years we're looking into the possibilities of moving abroad. Thailand, Bali, Ecuador look nice and TH-camrs make these videos showing how cheap it is to live there. Rarely do they show the trash filling the rivers and all the pollution you have to deal with.
The Wynns made a video about the trash in the South Pacific islands. Trash is every where. In LA county in California, all the trash from the rivers ends up right in the ocean after a big rain. We had access to a sailboat there and would see a whole trail of it reaching far north to far south of the metropolitan area.
Lazy people on the beaches will bury their trash in the sand because they don't want to haul it back to their cars. I volunteered for a beach clean-up in Redondo Beach, California and we saw heaps of empty beer cans buried. They think if it's out of sight, it just magically goes away....as if the beach is their new landfill.
Thanks for the video today. You guys always make great content!!
I think the refrigerator bottles come form ships that have a bad maintained cooling system.
They have small leaks on pumps shafts and valves shaft. To maintain cooling for mounts at sea you need more gas .
Bottle empty they go overboard. Welcome to the massive mostly uncontrollable fisheries.
I love a good treasure hunt, wish there was more treasure to be found than trash :( . Thanks to the Nahoa crew for keeping it real..
Absolutely beautiful, and so incredibly sad to see our trash tarnishing these beautiful places!
21:38 I wouldn’t open random bottles like that- you don’t have any idea what it could have in it. It could be a drug or something poisonous.
I used to do a lot of work in remote deserts in the US. We were always concerned about finding waste from manufacturing methamphetamine.
Refrigerant containers I would think are for fishing vessels freezers... my guess...they are empty an tossed overboard?
I was thinking when a ship goes down and sinks???
Prob both🤷🏻♀️
Absolutely. I was on a longline freezer boat back in the early 90s and we did 45 day trips for Tuna Sword in the mid Atlantic ridge between Africa and West Indies. I watched them throw over 20 bottles or more after repairing a blown out freezer line. It's actually legal under MARPOL because it's considered metal and should degrade but it always ends up on a beach because they float.
Is there a cruising logistics/convenience reason Nahoa is German flagged?
Ben is German
@ I see, I thought he was Canadian for some reason. Thanks.
As a TH-cam'er you probably don't watch other sailing channels as much as non TH-camers. If so, you'd know just about every channel mentions and does episodes on garbage. Some have joined together and created machines that make other products from beach plastics. In the past 10 years, the problem has exploded, and awareness has grown exponentially. Clean Ocean Sailing 👍
My first time in the Tuamotu was 1989. I have been back five times since then. It has got worse, but even in 1989 it was pretty bad..
@deerfootnz That’s surprising to learn it was bad 35 years ago.
@@nooneanybodyknows7912 we have been f***ING things up for a long time. That's why they are so f***ed up.
Precious Plastics from Melbourne Australia. They have been talked about by a few boaties. Not cheap. I think one group used the machine to recycle plastics into other stuff to sell.
We’re connected to businesses that use garbage to create energy and garbage to building blocks for houses. And the programs are being roles out globally. There’s hope. Garbage dies have a lot of value and people are starting to realise
It is very sad to see the oceans polluted so badly. 😥
Hey Ben and Ashley! Why not put the drone in the air prior to going through the passes! No need to rely on satellite. Rely on your own satellite in real time! :)
When I was a kid there were glass returnable bottles, but... You have a much smaller return to your shareholders if your industry has to clean up the mess it makes to do business.
love it
Sailor here. Am always dismayed at the trash I see in virtually every place I have ever gone ashore. This is planet Earth; it's not Uranus.
"Hey Ashley, shall we put out a garbage episode this week"
WOW PARADISE
Maybe every visiting sailor can collect it in a net and securely drag it to the next land fill processing centre in Tahiti for a fee or reward, drag it like a drogue so it's not taking space on the boat, unless the government employs a boat collecting plastic on all 118 islands if they cared
i grew up there morea dad had hotel there and bora bora sold now club meds those were ours 1968 to 1974
Lekker man lekker 🇿🇦
I love Broder 👍