Who Isn’t Sailing Across the Pacific?

What a coincidence. After writing up my blog yesterday, about Roz Savage crossing the Pacific Ocean to draw attention to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (thanks to a friend, whom I’ll call Chuck, for the content idea), I hear a news story about another crew. Check out Junk, a raft made from plastic bottles and an old Cessna cockpit.

Its crew, Marcus Eriksen, PhD and Joel Paschal, work for the Algalita Marine Research Foundation and launched their vessel on June 1.