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By Tom Harris News and sports reporter The Ocean Sheroes in San Franciso prior to starting the race. Bella Collins from Falmouth this afternoon began the ultimate endurance challenge as she and three other women started their 2,700 mile long row across the Pacific Ocean, from under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco to Hawaii as part of the Pacific Ocean Race. The ladies, known as the Ocean Sheroes who will row two hours on, two hours off 24/7 are aiming to break the current female four world record of 50 days, eight hours and 14 minutes set in 2014. On their journey, the team will experience both physical and mental challenges, including body sores, seasickness, extreme exhaustion, fatigue as well as burning between 6,500-8,500 calories per day. ....
Twenty plastic-busting inventions to clean our rivers and seas From plastic-devouring machines to watchful drones, these technologies are helping tackle plastic pollution in the ocean Share Plastic waste collected in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by a prototype boom (Image: The Ocean Cleanup) There’s an incomprehensible amount of plastic in the ocean – estimates put the known total at 5 trillion individual pieces, or around 150 million tonnes. An additional 8 million tonnes finds its way into the ocean every year. That’s only increased thanks to Covid-19 and the resulting surge in single-use items like masks and gloves. Most plastic enters the ocean via rivers, which carry vast amounts of waste from inland sources. Once in the ocean, plastic is broken down by the sun’s rays and by wind and waves, eventually transforming into smaller fragments called microplastics. But the hardy nature of the material means that this process can take hundreds of years. ....