Ocean Gybe

OceanGybe speaking at Karma Bag event (Thursday)

Bryson — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:02:13 +0000

Ocean Gybe is speaking at this Surfrider event on Thursday in Victoria. Plastics, oceans and surfing! Stoked to pick up a Karma Bag. Come out to support OceanGybe, Surfrider and our Oceans.

https://www.facebook.com/events/247771655369527/

Another excellent reason to care about plastic in the ocean: POP’s

oceangybe — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 05:37:30 +0000

We were honored to contribute to Dr. Hideshige Takada International Pellet Watch program throughout our trip. He has written a summary of his research and why it is so important. http://www.oceanhealthindex.org/News/Microplastics

Entanglement project on the streets of Vancouver

oceangybe — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:00:37 +0000

Photographer/Artist Michael JP Hall took his entanglement project to the streets of Vancouver this past weekend http://vimeo.com/63225640

Vancouver Plastic Awareness Art Campaign

Bryson — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 01:33:19 +0000

The Plastic Pollution Coalition is back at it ! Right here in Vancouver, they installed a giant plastic 6-pack holder on the orca whale exhibit on the corner of Georgia and Thurlow Streets ! Go and check it out !

Join us! OceanGybe presenting at Ocean Awareness Workshop for Family Day

Ryan — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 16:00:59 +0000

OceanGybe is excited to be a part of an Ocean Awareness Workshop for BC Family Day. Organised by the Comunity Arts Council of Vancouver, and hosted at the Vancouver Maritime Museum, this FREE interative workshop will be a lot of fun, and open to all ages. It is all about plastic education and awareness, yes!

Dubbed the “Debridement Project” (See definition below), the event includes an artist talk, a presentation by OceanGybe, and participative art making workshop for the whole family! Join us at the Vancouver Maritime Museum on Monday February 11th, from 1-5pm. The CACV project webpage is HERE, and you can link to the event press release HERE.

Debridement (pron.: /d ɨ ˈ b r i d m ə n t /) is the medical removal of dead, damaged, or infected tissue to improve the healing potential of the remaining healthy tissue. Removal may be surgical, mechanical, chemical,autolytic (self-digestion), and by maggot therapy, where certain species of live maggots selectively eat only necrotic tissue. (Wikipedia)

Tidelines fine cut is complete ! Whoooooohoooo !

Bryson — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 05:28:42 +0000

We have just received word from Andrew Naysmith of OakBayJohnny Productions and Arwen Hunter of SomethingSomethingStudios that final cut of Tidelines is complete ! Huge congratulations and thanks to Andrew and Arwen for working so hard on this project !

The film is off to film festival submissions and then bring it to all of you – we couldn’t be more excited. We have a long list of people to thank, and will do so in due time, but firstly we would love to send a HUGE THANK YOU to all our Kickstarter supporters !

Huge thanks to: (Note: While putting this list, I was reminded how lucky we are and how well supported we are by good friends and family. Thank you so much for believing in us and making this possible)

Chris Martin
Jessica Robertson
Kellie
Kevin Casey
Julie Robinson
Barry Green
Carol-Anne Moutinho
Christine Laporte
David Robinson
Ibrahim Hublou
Kai Nagata
Bevin Bigalky
Rita Wong
Ilja Herb
Trevor
Lex Oosterbaan
Andrew Howson
Devin
Peter Cech
Scott Sinton
Rory Taylor
Nick Watson
Arno Kopecky
Michael Harlow
Eve Bigelow
Bill Knight
Jessica de Haas
Paul C. Bryan
Jeanie Witcraft
Shane Annandale
Brian Russell
Jenni
Scott
Melissa Spires
Ian Rose-Innes
Gregg Anderson
Shayla Hall
Shannon Mallory
Romney
Kristy Davies
Julie Whitman
holiday rideout
Leigh Christie
Martin Fischer
Lynne Anderson
Susan Walton
James
Aidan Halloran
Wendy
Ian McKnight
J Michael Smith
Cassandra Osborn
Morgan MacKay
Hamish
Josh
Kate p
Robin Abercrombie
mike tranmer
Rebecca Tranmer
Reese Dawes
Scott Cressman
Dwayne Smith
Paige Calvert
Jonilyn Greene
Kathy Chambers
Jonathan Faille
Aaron
Grace Carter
Julia Kwinter
Carmen Emslie
CC Kaufman
Shandell Susin
Mack Hardy
Fred McGuinness
Dave Young
Julie Foreman
Nasser Yassine
Melissa Sinclair
Scott Naysmith
Katie Painchaud
Eliza Henshaw
Marilyn Cann
Ian Galbraith
Maiah Thompson
Alison Stent
Kathleen Diga
Alex Walker
Lee Davis
Clare Patterson
Rob Bourne
Rory Gomcalves
Amanda Goncalves
Pete Roggeman
Rob McCauley
Catlin Rideout
Christina Hartigan
Robin Kippan
Peggy White
Jane Comeault
Chris Duncombe
Debbie Zemnickis
Jeremy Haile
Amielle
Alexi & Jarret Deck
Matt Delany
Sean Staniforth
Jason Adamschek
Anthony Nicalo
Jeremy Spofford
Kirsten Cornwall
Blair Meeker
Peter Cooch
Dylan Barlow
Jessica Schafer
salim
Kendra Patton
Clay Hunting
Catherine Rubincam
John Miller
Kellsie
Sarah Tarnopolsky
Pamela Jansen
Izzy
Sam Mottram
Stephen Hay
Barrett and Jess Sprowson
Dave Abercrombie
Cedric Steele
Duncan and Janey Kippan
Nic & Laurie Roggeman
Blake and Marion Bromley
Mike and Diana Robertson
Ian Snider
Brad Hedblom
Alan
Jake
Decima Kunz
Erik Wong
Rositsa Simeonova
Anna Rubincam
Mark Marovich
Lisa
Erin Skillen

Plastic Bag Bans in Africa, Plastic Bottle Bans in the US and Plastic Pollution Coalition at it again !

Bryson — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 05:07:18 +0000

First up, the small African country of Mauritania has stepped out and banned the plastic bag:

Mauritania has banned the use of plastic bags to protect the environment and the lives of land and sea animals.

More than 70% of cattle and sheep that die in the capital, Nouakchott, are killed by eating plastic bags, environment ministry official Mohamed Yahya told BBC Afrique.

Plastic bag manufacturers could be jailed for up to a year. Plastic makes up a quarter of 56,000 tonnes of waste produced annually in Nouakchott, official statistics show.

Mauritania’s Organization of Consumer Protection head Moctar Ould Tauf said he welcomed the ban, Efe news agency reports. It was of “particular importance” given the negative impact of plastic bags on the environment, animals and marine species, he said.

Environment Minister Amedi Camara said that nearly all of the plastic package waste is not “collected and is found in the natural environment – land and sea – where they are sometimes ingested by marine species and livestock, causing their death”.

Secondly, a plastic bottle ban went into effect in Concord, Massachusetts !

Concord, Massachusetts has become one of the first communities in the U.S. to ban the sale of single-serving plastic water bottles.

According to the Associated Press, the plastic bottle ban resulted from a three-year campaign by local activists. The activists pushed to reduce waste and fossil fuel use.

Octogenarian Jean Hill lead the charge, telling The New York Times in a 2010 interview, “The bottled water companies are draining our aquifers and selling it back to us.” She declared, “I’m going to work until I drop on this.”

The campaign Ban the Bottle claims that “It takes 17 million barrels of oil per year to make all the plastic water bottles used in the U.S. alone. That’s enough oil to fuel 1.3 million cars for a year.” Their website also states: “In 2007, Americans consumed over 50 billion single serve bottles of water. With a recycling rate of only 23%, over 38 billion bottles end up in landfills.”

Lastly, the good folks at the Plastic Pollution Coalition just reminded us about this great clip!

Presentations today at Henry Hudson Elementary School

oceangybe — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:06:18 +0000

Thanks to the classes of Mrs. Dixon and Mrs. Shomura at Henry Hudson today for being so enthusiastic during Hugh’s presentation for the educational portion of the Debridement Project with Community Arts Vancouver and the Vancouver Maritime Museum. http://www.cacv.ca/announcing-the-debridement-project

Local film needs your support

oceangybe — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:16:45 +0000

Friends of Oceangybe and talented filmmakers Gamut Productions are working on very worthy project, Us and Them. Check out their indigogo campaign:http://www.indiegogo.com/usandthem

Kickstarter Rewards and TideLines Update

oceangybe — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:23:15 +0000

Hi All,

For those who are wondering when there Kickstarter rewards are and when they may be arriving, don’t dispair – they are on their way. Pictures are printed, t-shirts, music and hoodies are in the mail and flying all over this blue planet as we speak – let us know if yours doesn’t arrive !

Also, we have an update from Andrew Naysmith, who is editting and building up the TideLines movie. From the rough edits we have seen, he is doing an incredible job and we are just as excited as all of you to see the final product – see below:

Dear OceanGybe supporters,

Firstly, I must apologize that our film is not quite complete. We are sure everyone is eagerly anticipating the release of our film, TideLines; we are too. So, we figured it was time for an update on the status of TideLines and our progress to date.

For myself (Andrew Naysmith) this project took off in 2006 when I talked with Bryson and found out about the epic journey that he and his brother Ryan and good friend Hugh Patterson were about to embark on. I knew this was going to be an amazing story and wanted to help them produce a film about their adventure. Since that time, the guys made it happen; they circumnavigated the world, surfed unknown breaks and found out a tonne of evidence of world wide plastic trash throughout the oceans and beaches of the world. Also, we have gathered over 200 hundred hours of footage to put towards our film. Over the course of their trip I was periodically editing webisodes, educational videos and trailers in hopes of promoting our story.

In January of 2012, we sat down and put into place an outline of how we were going to attain our goal of making a feature length film. Up until that time we had been entirely self funded with each of us putting in our own time and money into the project respectively. Then came our supporters. Through our Kickstarter campaign we were able to attain a generous amount (nearly $11,000) and we were also able to pull in additional support through our current sponsors; Sitka Surfboards, The Flip Flop Recycling Co. and OceanCare. This funding has helped us out tremendously but as an independent film, we have had to bring on other industry professionals and I have needed to acquire additional work to support myself and my family. This has, in turn, taken small portions of my time away from OceanGybe and editing TideLines on a full time basis.

The film has consumed me in more ways than I can imagine but I am keeping my head afloat with the knowledge that we have a great story to tell. I am very happy at where we are at with our edit and am confident that we will be releasing our film in the next two months. We are now working with 6-7 hour edit and widdling it away day by day to bring you the best stories from their tale. We are almost there and can’t thank you enough for your continued support and patience as we work towards our finish line.

I am super stoked for the coming weeks of editing and can’t wait to present our film to you, TideLines!

Respectfully,

Andrew Naysmith

TideLines, Director