On September 8, The Ocean Cleanup foundation will launch the world’s first ocean cleanup system from its assembly yard in Alameda, through the San Francisco Bay, toward the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
As informed, the assembly of System 001 will be finalized on August 30, after which it will be lowered into the Seaplane Lagoon.
In the evening of September 7, the system will be transferred from the lagoon to make new tow with Maersk Supply Service’s AHTS, Maersk Launcher, at Anchorage 8. A second vessel will be fixed to the aft of System 001 to maintain a stable position.
