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to recover and make sure i am there. the sailors in the gruelling round the world ocean race have become part sportspeople part scientists as they try and help understand the impact of climate change while also attempting to win what is considered one of the longest, and toughest, professional sporting events in the world. will harris is a british sailor competing for team malizia, whose boat was fitted with scientific monitoring equipment during the six month race that ended this week in genoa. we spent 125 days sailing in the entire lap of the planet. over 3500 miles and during that we have such an some of the most remote parts of the ocean. in particular the south pacific is known to be the most remote areas with more than 2000 miles from any land. we have definitely had some pretty eye opening moments noticing man made things and objects in the water, plastic and debris. our role as sailors is to show this back to everyone back at home who don t get these experiences sailing these
and we had to showcase these environment sites are at risk. a figure of 20% in terms of debris that you encounter, a figure of 20% in terms of the rise of debris that you encounter, just from the last race in 2018, is pretty astonishing. you speak about things like life attempting to attach itself to the large parts of debris. describe that to us. you know, i had a really shocking expense myself, shocking experience myself, finding these pieces of plastic stuck around parts of the boat and when i climbed into water to cut them off, we actually found they had been in the water for 20 or 30 years and there was sort of life and plants and animals trying to grow and turn it into their home, i would say. obviously, being plastic, it s not suitable for that. it kind of makes you realise that this debris has been in the water at 20 or 30 years, what is the ocean situation
going to be in 50 years time? it s not possible or sustainable to keep living like this. it s increasing, the amount of ocean debris, so will try to make a change for this. that brings me to the final point where if you are in such such remote areas and witnessing what you are and yet you are in a race and try to win a race as grueling as long as it is, when you re in those places do you almost forget you are in a race and need to win that race because you re looking at something that takes your mind away from the sport of it and turns you to the sustainability of it? exactly, this race is an adventure in itself. just finishing it is a huge challenge. we re lucky to race against a few other yachts on the way but wishing to contribute to science in lots of different ways. we collect atmospheric data and c02 data, we look at how c02 is impacting and changing around our oceans and we re looking