Renowned non-profit organizations, Sailors for the Sea and
the Pacific Science Center, recently announced a one-year environmental sailing
expedition and circumnavigation, Around the Americas.

To launch this education-based voyage and awareness project, Sailors for the Sea , a
national organization co-founded by David Rockefeller, Jr. that educates and
empowers the boating community to protect and restore our oceans and coastal
waters, has partnered with the Pacific Science Center, a Seattle-based
science foundation and nationally recognized leader in informal science and
environmental education.

"North and South America are surrounded by a large, complex, and
frighteningly fragile ocean environment -- and these oceans are changing in
large part as a result of human activity," said Rockefeller, president of
the board, Sailors for the Sea founder, and member of the Pew Ocean
Commission. "The goal of this expedition is to build broad awareness among
everyday citizens of the precipitous changes occurring throughout the
world's oceans and the impact these changes have on various ecosystems and
human life." -- Read on here.