Oceans Pacific Trials – The Gateway to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Following the successful launch from the San Francisco Bay, System 001 traveled 350 nautical miles to commence the Pacific Trials. The trials will last approximately two weeks and are a…
Oceans System 001 has launched into the Pacific After 5 years of research, engineering and testing, we launched the world’s first ocean cleanup system from San Francisco Bay, marking the start of the cleanup. The system is now…
Oceans System 001 Assembly Completed After six months of assembly, we can now announce that System 001 is officially complete. It is currently positioned entirely in the Seaplane Lagoon – the sheltered body of water…
Engineering, Oceans The Final Design of the World’s First Cleanup System On May 11th, 2017 we unveiled our new method to clean up the world's ocean garbage patches. Instead of having one massive cleanup system fixed to the seabed, we unveiled…
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…
Oceans System 001 Tow Test Explained We have successfully initiated our 120-meter tow test unit towards its designated test pattern approximately 50 nautical miles outside of San Francisco’s Golden Gate. This is an important test before…
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…
Oceans, Research The Exponential Increase of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch After three years of research including two field expeditions, extensive laboratory experiments and data analyses, we are thrilled to finally release the results of our study on the infamous Great…
Oceans, Testing Unscheduled Learning Opportunities on the North Sea A new ocean cleanup prototype is being deployed on the North Sea today. It is one of the last steps as we prepare to launch the first cleanup system in…
