Clean Sailors podcast

by Clean Sailors Crew 🌊

Welcome to our Clean Sailors podcast! Hosted by Clean Sailors founder, Holly, we talk all about sea, sailing and keeping it clean, exploring some of the areas in which sailing and our wider marine industry can become that bit cleaner. Through conversations with experts, innovators, inventors and activists, all working towards the health of our seas, we showcase the people and projects changing the way things are done. We be... Read more

Podcast episodes

  • Season 1

  • S01 E08 - Ep 8. Why We Should Care About Invasive Species

    S01 E08 - Ep 8. Why We Should Care About Invasive Species

    It’s easy to think that all fish belong in the sea. But not all fish belong in all parts of the sea….Threatening local ecosystems, disrupting and at times eradicating other species entirely and even disrupting economies, our boats...

    34:06
  • S01 E07 - Ep 7. More on Microplastics

    S01 E07 - Ep 7. More on Microplastics

    'Microplastics' - we've all heard of them and over the last two years alone, have become aware of just how pervasive these tiny pieces of plastic are within our environment, and our human bodies… In this episode, we speak with Dr....

    35:53
  • S01 E06 - Ep 6. Building Better Boats

    S01 E06 - Ep 6. Building Better Boats

    For thousands of years, we've been building boats. We began, and indeed continued for centuries, with wood, but since the mass-commercialisation of plastic since the late 1940's, we've been making boats from glass or fibre-reinfor...

    28:35
  • S01 E05 - Ep 5. About Blue Carbon and Protecting Our Shallows

    S01 E05 - Ep 5. About Blue Carbon and Protecting Our Shallows

    Our emission of greenhouse gases, namely significant amounts of Co2 over several hundred years, is altering our climate. We often turn to trees and replanting vegetation, Green Carbon, as the opportunity to recapture carbon from o...

    32:05
  • S01 E04 - Ep 4. How Sea Urchins Inspired Antifoul

    S01 E04 - Ep 4. How Sea Urchins Inspired Antifoul

    With studies showing that traditional antifoul paint on the bottom of our boats is contributing extraordinary amounts of chemicals and microplastics to our waters, the case for biocide-free and paint-free solutions is high. In thi...

    36:58