SOS- Save Our Seas

SOS-Save Our Seas

Ian Thomson is personally known to our Company's Managing Director and we congratulate him on his desire,passion and drive to take on this big challenge. To sail SOLO around Australia in 50 days. The current time is 63 days.

Where is Ian now

Ian came up with his idea to try and inform the general public of the destruction to our seas that the seemingly simple non-threatening light weight plastic shopping bags have done and continue to do.

Hampton Gardens made the decision mid 2009 to no longer supply plastic carry bags due to our Managing Directors personal experiances while on the ocean. Our Teams conservation and environmental concerns of their use and the information now coming through as to the deadly environmental impact plastics not just bags are doing to our environment, the Oceans and the animals who call the Ocean home.

Something to think about - if the Oceans were to die, so would the world as it is the major link in the chain of life on this planet.

Currently there is an area in the Central North Pacific Ocean the size of Australia of rubbish, it is caught in a vortex of Ocean currents and it could almost be walked on. This is the rubbish and plastic you can see, there is even more you can not as it is small fragmented pieces almost invisible to the eye and invisible to satellite vision from space. Think of it like an iceberg, the smallest piece you see is what is above the water.

Tthere are five Vortexes in the worlds oceans, so far it is this one that is of major concern, and the damage it is causing is huge and unlikely if something is not done soon, it could be totally irreversable. The biggest percentage of the rusbbish is plastics of all kinds. If it continues it will probably happen with the others as well, is this the legacy we wish to leave our children and future generations!!??

Please consider this everytime you are offered a plastic shopping bag or go to take one, or see that one blowing past on the street or footpath - they can kill many times over the animals that encounter them, the animal will die, decompose and the bag will be free to kill again as they do not decompose from being ingested by animals!!

It is not just plastic bags, all types of plastic can be lethal to our wildlife!!

To read more on Ian's challenge, join him as a member of SOS racing, offer sponsorship, to promote this disaster, and learn more about the damage plastic bags do, not just in Australia but around the world check out the SOS Racing website and perhaps say G'Day by dropping him an email to say good on you for trying to make a difference.

Help spread the word of his campain to others.

Good luck, fair winds and smooth seas Ian

The Hampton Gardens Team

http://www.sosoceanracing.com/index.html

Above plastic content sof a decompossed Albatross Chicks stomach as found on the ground

and below

The contents layed out from the stomach of another dead Albatross chick