The expedition

While many of us love the ocean, it’s hard to imagine what is happening just beyond our beaches, and hard to picture the scale of destruction and the impact that it’s having. By travelling to most of the oceans in the world, this voyage aims to change this  - we will make the unseen, seen.

Every second breath you take comes from the oceans. The oceans give life to our planet. In return we are suffocating them; dredging up too many fish, stealing food from needy mouths, carelessly killing countless creatures including whales, turtles, sea birds and thousand year old corals, we fill the oceans with pollution and warm them with climate change.

During this journey, we want you to join us.  Wherever you are in the world, you can help defend your oceans.  Sign up as an Ocean Defender now!

Our goal: marine reserves

A primary focus of the expedition will be the creation of a global network of ocean parks called marine reserves. Just as parks on land allow life to flourish, marine reserves are essential to help restore the diversity that once characterised our seas.

Many governments agree that such a network is vital. The UN has said they will work out where these reserves should be by the end of 2006. But the goldrush for fish is blinding governments to the damage that is being done.

So we will do the work for them.  By the end of the journey, we will have mapped out where these marine reserves should be, and shown you why. 

A global journey

The expedition will travel from South Africa to Europe, the Americas to the Antarctic.  You can follow the journey above or on our google map.