The Pacific Vortex Challenge (PVC) is an ultra-marathon ocean swim like no other.
In 2012 a team of swimers will set out from San Francisco to swim to Hawaii. 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometres). Non-stop.
Led by PVC Founding Director Richard Pain, they will be swimming through the biggest garbage dump on Earth. The Pacific Garbage Vortex.
An area in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean estimated to be at least twice the size of Texas. Just below its surface is a snowstorm of rubbish, most of which is plastic. The remains of everything from a kayak down to a nurdle, the building blocks of all plastics that are just a few millimetres across. All this plastic is absorbing toxins, killing sea life and poisoning the aquatic food chain that we humans sit at the top of. Poisoning our future.
A quarter of it comes from ships and fishing vessels, the rest from land and is carried by four clockwise currents into the Vortex at their centre. An area also known as the North Pacific Gyre.
The PVC is a mission to publicize this environmental catastrophe and raise money to solve it.
A history-making environmental action you can be part of.
You can join The Pacific Vortex Challenge as a sponsored swimmer, individual or corporate sponsor, or supporter.
So, are you up to the Challenge?
