{"id":23135,"date":"2015-06-18T11:25:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T11:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=23135"},"modified":"2015-06-18T11:25:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T11:25:52","slug":"all-female-crew-of-exxpedition-to-study-ocean-debris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/06\/all-female-crew-of-exxpedition-to-study-ocean-debris\/","title":{"rendered":"All Female Crew of eXXpedition to Study Ocean Debris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>If the oceans die, we die.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a grim statement\u00a0about the state of pollution in the world\u2019s oceans, and according to scientists from across the globe, the world\u2019s \u201cplastic problem\u201d is getting worse.<\/p>\n<p>According to National Geographic, there are 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic debris in the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis plastic disintegrates over time, breaks down, enters the food chain because the fish mistake the plastic for food, then it gets into the food chain and bioaccumulates,\u201d explains Agathe Bernard, a geologist based out of Revelstoke, B.C.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we\u2019re fishing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bernard is one of more than a dozen\u00a0scientists, researchers and explorers planning an \u201ceXXpedition\u201d to the heart of the problem \u2014 one of five gyres in the world\u2019s oceans, where tonnes of plastic debris has accumulated like a giant, floating landfill. <a href=\"http:\/\/calgaryherald.com\/news\/local-news\/canadian-scientists-prep-for-exxpedition-to-study-ocean-debris\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/exxpedition.com\/crew\/ascension2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">eXXpedition<\/a> here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the oceans die, we die. It\u2019s a grim statement\u00a0about the state of pollution in the world\u2019s oceans, and according to scientists from across the globe, the world\u2019s \u201cplastic problem\u201d is getting worse. According to National Geographic, there are 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic debris in the ocean. \u201cThis plastic disintegrates over time, breaks down, enters the food chain because the fish mistake the plastic for food, then it gets into the food chain and bioaccumulates,\u201d explains Agathe Bernard, a geologist based out of Revelstoke, B.C. \u201cAnd we\u2019re fishing it.\u201d Bernard is one of more than a dozen\u00a0scientists, researchers and explorers planning an \u201ceXXpedition\u201d to the heart of the problem \u2014 one of five gyres in the world\u2019s oceans, where tonnes of plastic debris has accumulated like a giant, floating landfill. Read More Learn more about eXXpedition here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[573,526],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23139,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23135\/revisions\/23139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}