Expedition Crew Spreads Awareness Of Protecting Oceans From Plastics
Scientist Marion Hingant (left) and Captain Patrick Deixonne in the lab of the Expedition schooner. (Robert Luckock photos)
Information stands were set up on the shoreline next to Marina Fort Louis.
The 26-metre 7th Continent Expedition schooner visited Marina Fort Louis on May 6 and 7.
MARIGOT--Explorer Patrick Deixonne and his crew of schooner 7th Continent Expedition were at Fort Louis Marina, Marigot, May 6-7 to raise awareness among the public of the urgent need to preserve the oceans and to stress the importance of sorting waste, the first barrier against marine pollution.
The name 7th Continent comes from areas in the worlds oceans where there is a particularly high concentration of plastics driven together by currents, effectively forming their own continents.
This was the sixth educational tour and the very first edition in the Antilles-Guyana region Read more
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