Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Plastiki, setting sail!














On the 23rd of March 2010 the plastiki set sail for a 11,000 journey from San Francisco to Sydney, Australia. After 3 years of building and designing the boat which is made of 37,000 recycled bottles has finally set sail across the pacific!. You may think this boat doesn't have much to it well you thought wrong this boat is very high tech with an extra cabin. The boat is very well equipped for the journey. Extra things they have put on are  solar panels, a wind mil and a hydroponic vegetable garden which provides the crew with vegetables.

David de Rothschild decided to build this boat because he wanted a different way of people to look at using and recycling plastic bottles. So he built this boat entirely from that idea.  He also wanted to build the boat to help the pollution problem in the world.

I think this boat was a brilliant idea because ive always wanted to find out a way to use all the recycling bottles and stuff in an interesting way. I think its DISGUSTING and DISTURBING about how much plastic and garbage is left in the ocean!

Good Luck Plastiki on your journey!


10 comments:

Michael said...

Some good work here, Saige, but the main point of this project was more than to show what could be built from plastic bottles (not filled with oil). Plastiki is to draw attention to the disappointing amount of trash that is dumped into our oceans. They was everyone to be aware of this terrible situation.

mh

Toms Awesome Homework said...

I think that you described plastiki really well and what it is going to do. I really like your picture

kayleigh's homework said...

Great job in getting in to the detail and describing the extra features on the plastiki. I really enjoyed reading it and I did not get bored. Good Job!!!!

Matthew said...

Nice work Saige. Dont you think its cool that the crew have their own garden?

alona beloussova said...

That was really awesoem! You really explained all of the details about the boat! :D

kaiseis boring homework said...

I dont think there was oil in the boat but I like the part where you gave a good luck to the sailors

Saige Kelsey said...

haha kaisei ..
well yeah i think there was or something about it inside the bottles?? i dont know but i heard about it in a video.

William Ciputra said...

The picture is nice. I did not know they used 37,000 recycled bottles.

AmaliaB said...

You did a good job. Except you forgot to write about why they were doing it.

Elise said...

Good job Saigee !
You did a good job and it was pretty detailed but you have to add why they are doing the whole plastiki thing but the other things you wrote like what it's made of was good !

Awesome job Saigee ! Keep up the good work ! :)