Engineering, Oceans Successful Tow Test Validates System 001 Seaworthiness On May 19th, from our assembly yard in Alameda, a 120-meter section of our cleanup system was towed out of San Francisco Bay and into the Pacific to conduct a…
Engineering, Oceans System 001 Assembly: 120-meter Tow Test Unit Completed To meet our ambitious goals of deploying the first ocean cleanup system this summer, we are reminded of one of our basic design principles here at The Ocean Cleanup: doing…
Engineering, Oceans, Testing Looking Back on our Most Advanced Scale Model Test to Date Before we share some great news on the System 001 assembly front, we wanted to provide you with an update on our recent scale model tests, the most advanced we…
Engineering, Testing New North Sea prototype successfully deployed Moving towards the deployment of our first cleanup system in mid-2018, The Ocean Cleanup continues to test and verify system components. On August 29 we deployed the first part our…
Engineering, Testing Second North Sea Prototype to be tested in August Our first cleanup system is scheduled to be deployed by mid-2018; less than 10 months from now. The Ocean Cleanup team is now moving full speed ahead towards execution, but…
Engineering, Testing The Testing Continues Sticking to its planning, The Ocean Cleanup team is working hard on its long-term goal to initiate the full-scale cleanup of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2020. To ensure…
Engineering, Testing An update from the North Sea During a recent inspection of the North Sea prototype, we noticed something unusual: the two outermost air chambers seemed to be bent out of shape - they did not follow…
Engineering, Testing The Ocean Cleanup Unveils First Prototype First sea trial of ocean cleanup system to be deployed this week
Engineering, Research Engineering An Ocean Cleanup Barrier From Scratch How we design a system that does not ‘fight the ocean’, but rather ‘moves with it’?
Engineering, Research, Testing First Cleanup Barrier Test to be deployed in Dutch waters The Ocean Cleanup will be deploying a 100 meter-long barrier segment in the second quarter of 2016 in the North Sea, 23 km off the coast of The Netherlands. It…
