I believe our environment is a reflection of who we are as people.  During the past month we have been sorting through our photos and video of the SEAPLEX expedition and realize the need to get the real story out about the history of The Garbage Patch and the North Pacific Gyre.  We are working with the scientists from each of the Project Kaisei funded expeditions, Kaisei and SEAPLEX.  We are shocked at how much misinformation there is on the internet and want to be a reputable source of information that people can turn too.
 
In addition, Dive Into Your Imagination will be partnering with Oceanic Defense to build a new site specifically on this issue, bringing first awareness to the issues and then ways to make changes in our lives to help the health of our ocean.  If you know of any plastic issues, experts on marine debris or environmental heroes, we want to know about them!  You see we, all of us, have been inadvertently affecting our environment in a negative way for years and the difference between now and then is that we now know what we should be doing and what we should not be doing.  In "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying," Sogyal Rinpoche says,  "Modern people have developed no long-term vision.  So there is nothing to restrain them from plundering the planet for their own immediate ends and from living in a selfish way that could prove fatal for the future.  How many more warnings do we need?"  I do not need another warning.  After seeing the North Pacific Gyre coated in a layer of confetti plastic was enough of a wake-up call for me. Read More!