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Sailor Emily Penn on why plastic pollution is a women’s issue
Katie Strick
Emily Penn adventurer, plastic pollution pioneer and at 34, the youngest and only female recipient of the Yachtmaster and Seamaster of the Year awards was in the middle of the South Pacific, surrounded by dolphins, when news of Covid began to crackle through on the radio.
“Ironically,” she says, it was Friday March 13, last year. She and her nine female crewmates were eight legs into a 38,000-mile round-the-world voyage. The stakes of abandoning the expedition were high: their mission had been to spend two years circumnavigating the globe to contribute to world-class scientific studies on ocean plastic. But Covid forced Penn and her crew to abandon those plans and their 72ft yacht, SV TravelEdge. They set sail for Tahiti, making it onto the last flight off the island with less than 24 hours to spare. ....

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