Volvo Ocean Race

If you haven't watched the start of the Volvo Ocean Race, do it. It is, in a word, AMAZING!

And while the race is great, so is their effort to weave some conservation into the mix. On board the boats they are taking water samples as they travel around the globe. As they passed through the Straight of Gibraltar some of the boats found some pretty nasty evidence that there is a long way to go toward cleaning up the ocean:

Hi all
For those sailors who not only race around the globe, but also are to deal with the task of taking water samples to contribute in a huge research about the presence and state of marine biomass, it has been more than a shame to go across the Strait of Gibraltar in the middle of an oil slick. Imagine our faces when sailing across waters absolutely covered with floating tar, something of a shameful remembrance for many who lived it from a close distance in Galicia.

I wonder what might have happened if one of the boats had the water-maker seacocks open.

Let's sail and let's hope all the shit from the hull has gone before we need to put the water-maker to work.

Apart from that, we are happy to see ourselves pushing harder and harder forward, and getting step by step to the top positions of the fleet. That's the prize for the hard work done!

Cheers from TELEFONICA NEGRO
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