Project Kaisei Information

Project Kaisei consists of a team of innovators, scientists, environmentalists, ocean lovers, sailors, and sports enthusiasts who have come together with a common purpose. To study the North Pacific Gyre and the marine debris that has collected in this oceanic region, to determine how to capture the debris and to study the possible retrieval and processing techniques that could be potentially employed to detoxify and recycle these materials into diesel fuel. This first research expedition, taking place in the summer of 2009, was critical to understanding the logistics that will be needed to launch future clean-up operations and testing existing technologies that have never been utilized under oceanic conditions.