Environmental Articles

The Seabin is a device that passively collects debris and pollution in marina environments.

In this episode of “Beyond The Horizon” Jared Leto interviews 21-year-old Boyan Slat, an entrepreneur who is developing technologies to extract, prevent and intercept plastic pollution in the world’s oceans

Here at the American Sailing Association, the waters of our earth are obviously on the top of our priority list and we want to do our part to make things a little bit better.

ASA was in San Francisco for the conclusion of the Mega Expedition… watch the video and find out how The Ocean Cleanup hope to fix the plastic pollution problem…

ASA interviews Stella Diamant, The Mega Expedition Coordinator, via satellite phone from the middle of the Pacific Garbage Patch!

Stella Diamant works for The Ocean Cleanup. She is currently in the middle of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch sailing on a Gunboat 66 called Extreme H2O collecting plastic pollution samples as part of the Mega Expedition that she helped put together.

As sailors, we believe the oceans need help and protection. Take our quiz and learn more about oceanic plastic pollution and what ASA and The Ocean Cleanup are doing to help!

From the shores of Hawaii, and the shores of the mainland the Mega Expedition has begun… watch the video…

ASA will be providing exclusive content from the Pacific Garbage Patch as certified sailing instructor Bob Solliday joins the Mega Expedition, a research component of The Ocean Cleanup project.