Women-only crew on two-year sea voyage to tackle plastic pollution

Ten members of public which include a police constable and yoga teacher are setting sail on a two-year scientific voy to analyze ocean plastics. all-women expedition will begin from October 8 and stop at 30 destinations around globe with 300 women overall participating in different legs of trip. Exxpedition mission will be led by Sky Ocean Rescue ambassor Emily Penn. She told a news ncy that congregating people from different walks of life on-board will give experience and will hopefully increase scope for finding solutions to tackle ocean plastics. Ms. Penn said that she has realized working on plastic problems is rocket science and re should be a solution to problem. She said to bring those solutions to life y need people from all different skill sets, backgrounds, and expertise. She ded that we need scientists, artists, teachers, designers and policymakers to work on solutions.

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trip is named as Exxpedition

trip is named as Exxpedition and will be represented by all-women crowd. trip is entirely formed up of female guests and crew members to highlight under-representation of women in science, techlogy, engineering, and mamatics industries. ship will visit Arctic and four of five oceanic gyres where ocean plastic is kwn to accumulate. ship will cover a distance of 38,000 nautical miles with a first stop at Azores in Atlantic ocean where 10 new women are scheduled to join ship.

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Scientific tests led by University of Plymouth

first leg of participants come from UK, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Croatia, Cana, USA, and Germany. scientific tests conducted on-board and on samples sent back to land are being led by University of Plymouth. Among first 10 who have paid to take part is Kirsty Young from London who works as a firearms officer for Ministry of Defence.

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(With inputs from ncies)