At sea, the lifestyle is simple. You will experience the preciousness of drinking water and electricity and will learn to use every drop and amp consciously. But what else can do you to minimise impact? How can you make a difference during an ocean adventure? What can we do at the frontline, as sailors, with our special connection to the sea?

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Be Aware

Here's a cool carbon calculator: oceanfdn.org/calculator.

Bring Goods

Marta via facebook.com/correos.de.la.mar coordinates sailing goods between islands.

PackforaPurpose

HandsAcrosstheSea

Sailing through any Marine Protected Areas?

Check mpatlas.org and protectedplanet.net

Contribute to Research

Report plastic here and here

Take water samples

Set up a measurement station with SeaKeepers

Report illegal fishing. Learn more at GlobalFishingWatch

Refuse – Reduce – Re-choose – Reuse- Recycle

Refuse

Beat the Microbead, app to check for Microplastics

Reduce

Reduce plastic use

Microplastic down the drain: Life-Mermaids.eu

Check detox-outdoor.org

Check ‘What’s in my Eco Travel Kit to learn what brands and product I recommend (an ever evolving post)

Reduce the trash pile

Take3.org.

Become a Trash Hero

Become a TrashHunter

Create content and campaign

Handy tools to start a website

Contribute content to sailor platforms: Navionics.com, ActiveCaptain.com, and Noonsite.com.

Ideas to be heard

Befriend and represent your favourite marine species with Terramar.

Set up and sign petitions on Change.org. Signatures become victories.

TrustedHousesitters - The Freedom To Travel

Use code: TRUSTED15 for a 15% Trustedhousesitters Discount

Share your ocean action and inspire the world via 1000oceanactions.org.

Support ocean advocates & initiatives

Discover and support innovative entrepreneurs on Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Patreon and Etsy.

Check: #awaveofchange #beneaththewaves #take3forthesea #5gyres #makeAsplash #Splash4theOcean #cleanswell #iamacarbonpirate.
Share you ocean discoveries with #oceannomadlife !

Dive below the surface

Reef – Help to collect data on the state of the reefs.
ReefCheck Help to survey and monitor the health of coral reefs. ·

Adopt a dive site with ProjectAware.org.

Green your diet

Documentaries to learn more

Racing Extinction
Cowspiracy: the sustainability secret, Before the flood
Forks over Knives
A Plastic Ocean
Sushi: the Global Catch
Food Inc
FoodChains
Earthlings
Meat the Truth
Comfortably Unaware
What the Health
Fat, Sick, and nearly dead I and II
Food Matters

Also coming up!: OceanNomad TV, where I publish short episodes on the hitch-sail and ocean discoveries.

Offset your footprint

Adopt a coral with the Nature Conservancy Coral Restoration Foundation Bonaire

Plant seagrass with SeagrassGrow.org.