One Year at Sea: Inspiring Words From a Humble Offshore Legend | Podcast Clip

Flemming Sloth Andersen is a name that will forever be linked to our ocean cleaning operations. Flemming has spent over one year of his life at sea with The Ocean Cleanup, and here - direct from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - he tells us the ups and the downs, from early prototype challenges to System 03’s unprecedented plastic extractions.
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[@guavas66]

As a lifelong resident of Hawaii and a surfer for over 40 years I want to thank you for your amazing contribution to sustaining life here on earth. Ola I ka wai! Much mahalos!

[@poskeegget8043]

I don't know the feeling as well as you, sir, but I can imagine it. Here in Norway we've become better at cleaning up around the shoreline along our coast, and while it is hardly comparable to the level that Ocean Cleanup have done and is before them, I can't overstate how much difference it seems to have done. Last year the cleaning effort was quite a lot higher than this year, but only because we see that there are so much less plastic and garbage to pick up this year compared to the last. Probably because plastic around the coast simply moves about and drift up close by more often than not. . . but that gives us the opportunity to actually remove it from the ocean more readily. I therefor urge everyone to pick up trash whenever they see it, and dispose of it in the garbage. Because little by little, we can remove that which we can reach by land. And every little piece that we pick up, will no longer be contributing to the tons upon tons that Ocean Cleanup are removing.

[@MonicaOutdoors]

Well done. And, thank you, for what you do. If we all do a wee bit,we can make a big difference. 🙏

[@karenuntz6514]

Thank you!!! ❤❤❤

[@joshuadangerfield3728]

I love the passion this man shows for his job

[@farhanfkaramat2063]

I want to doing this job because I love this kind of work

[@stopscammingman]

A great example of a person having a really fulfilling job they probably wouldn't have guessed they would do in a million years!

[@egal007]

Thank you Sir for your service

[@ingridwatsup9671]

Thank you Sir for your hard and important work, also on behalf of the sea creatures ❤🇳🇱🌷🌷

[@TheMandym00]

Bless you Flemming and the team. You are doing such important work❤

[@farmertomas]

Thanks for sharing so vulnerably the complexity of your feelings whilst doing this amazing service and repair to our Earth which we have caused.

[@cailinanne]

That bittersweet feeling is something that struck me immediately seeing the first video of your systems. ❤

[@triggabun]

I wish I could have a job this meaningful in my life.

[@argfasdfgadfgasdfgsdfgsdfg6351]

You rock. Keep doing what you're doing!!!

[@bigmama397]

Благодарю тех,кто чистит моря!

[@freudsigmund72]

once you've seen, you can never unsee!

[@joanabri2205]

please , we need traduction ...let's all donate to ocean cleanup ,no words for your work !

[@joeyd7728]

Amazing work! God bless all involved 🙏🏼💯

[@alwayscurious599]

Thank you so much for your clean up❤

[@michaelshepherd733]

The Ocean Cleanup........making a huge huge difference.......thank you

[@TheMisanthrope.]

Heros, each & everyone of you. Thank you.

[@jonathansantos2271]

thank you for expressing a way to feel how you people had to accept and endure the pain related from such global mess that we had to suffer from negligence and faulty defensive values of group practition standards , still yonderway to a greater living grace, cultured. your group performance has show great lengths of hope and group praiseing glory. I hope my grace confidence is bonding strength and spirit together❤ thank you for your initial love values and environmental love virtrues. God bless you all involved❤

[@mikemeyerphotopro]

I imagine that if it had never been pulled from the ocean it would eventually become a floating island of garbage. I'm so glad that you are working on it now. I took a cruise from CA to HI in 1998 and saw things floating and just couldn't imagine how it got out there. I figured it was accidental and only a few pieces. Boy was I wrong!!!

[@stopscammingman]

Right now, I'm thinking of all the whales and seabirds alive because of your efforts so far.

[@TimeTheory2099]

Thanks Oc teams 👍

[@StayPrimal]

GREAT job everyone!!!

[@OneSpeedGo]

Heroes Work

[@bensteel3944]

Most of it looks like it's discarded fishing gear.

[@CakeboyRiP]

It is mostly that

[@ladypip]

I clean my local beach often and what I pick up is 80-90% from the fishing industry, personal and commercial.

[@stephaniefagan1736]

Laundry baskets!

[@ciello___8307]

Sadly there is a lot of waste from that industry

[@Le_Comte_de_Monte_Felin]

Crazy idea: let folks volunteer for X number of days/weeks/etc on board helping. Even with personal obligations here I'll bet I could do 2 - 4 weeks. Volunteers fly to port at their expense - then work for food & a genuine story to teach their children/grand-children with.

[@christiereynolds1335]

Love what you're doing!!!❤ i subscribed

[@Siranoxz]

I really get the happy feeling when you unload all of that trash onto the ship and knowing you are one step closer to clean up the oceans a bit more..

[@elymaya4662]

Amazing good job!

[@davidackland8123]

Yes, of course it was OUR fault for the condition of the world, and continues to be so. All of human kind is responsible and together, hopefully , it is not too late. Thank you for your effort and encouragement. 🙏

[@jasonbullock2816]

It was not your fault you didn't no. God bless you trying to help 😊😊😊😊😊😢😢

[@asnatp246]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 കടൽ എല്ലാം വ്യത്തിയാക്കി... നല്ലത്... ഗുഡ് വർക്ക്‌ ❤

[@newmanhere2487]

I feel the same, after I’m gone how much waste I made will remain for years and years……??

[@iKS162]

👍 ...thx!

[@Yetipfote]

He has a very similar charisma to the Ice Man 🥶🥶🥶

[@nfboogaard]

Every little tonne helps 😊

[@caylaclanton6074]

@theoceancleanup how many catches would it take the system to clean up the entire garbage patch? Just curious

[@dainagrn7030]

In two years I recycled more than 30kg of plastic bottles.

[@earthwormjum]

Perhaps you should stop buying plastic bottles then? Use a reusable bottle, consume less plastic.

[@dainagrn7030]

@@earthwormjum where will I refill that reusable bottle if I'm not at home? And I recycle in specially for plastic bottles dedicated recycling mashine. Those 30kg were used by all family. Not me alone.

[@kryptkeeper457]

We need to go back to glass bottles…..

[@JACK-wh6jl]

STELLAR BRAVO

[@batchint]

are ocean clean up seeking volunteers…. 💫

[@larryjones6118]

👁🌏💖

[@tomricharme3761]

How do you dispose of the captured plastic?

[@earthwormjum]

They throw it in the river 😂

[@griffalosoldiertv]

Work availability???

[@mollerdk2000]

Meget flot arbejde der skulle være 100 af de skibe hver dag

[@wendysalter]

I totally get it - the enormous task and the small success, but listen, an hour takes up 60 minutes.

[@user-oj4xi9eq2z]

Жас😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

[@loke412]

I wAnt to work with you

[@irisbirman-irisb.7071]

There should be a global commercial fishing tax, and tax on plastic products that go towards your organization.

[@toofastedi0]

Pues como no llevéis 8.000 barcos diarios poco vais a hacer

[@jeanwonnacott2718]

Container ships that dumped cargo. By a bad storm. FISHING GEAR. From all kinds of fishermen. I pull line out of every place I go that can be fished in. Tons. Lures. Worm containers. Bottles, plastic and glass, where my dog goes...I hate outdoor human pigs...

[@ivonekowalczyk5823]

One day there will be less than 18 tons a day.....

[@pascalefontaine9314]

I realize while watching your video that a lot of those plastics seems to come from fishing activity!!!! Isn't it ?????😮😲😟😩😢👎💀

[@SamsonFernendez]

I hope this dude is vegan, or at least (the very bare minimum) doesn't eat fish.

[@alanr2671]

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[@marieke3032]

So much trash from the fishing industry. Time to stop consuming seafood! 🌊🦭✂️🌍💙