This Megaproject is Saving the Ocean 

What do You think? 🤔 Will TheOceanCleanup succeed and save our Oceans from plastic waste? 🌏

I think Ocean CleanUp and Slat deserve the fame and recognition a company like SpaceX and Musk get - lets clean up earth before we plan to leave it!! Brilliant job everybody at Ocean CleanUp!

Very encouraging and motivated by his drive… we need so much positive encouragement and energy to get things right and done.

slat is a true hero. unlike many other talented dropped, he actually cared for the world rather than 'personal success'

Projects like this has to be given a big priority in the world because it touches every living thing in an entire planet earth. Congratulations to all who assist this project and may receive many blessings from God

2:52 his energy is so sweet and pure. nervous, yet confident and passionate in his project so he was presenting it with his all. i love that. not all awkward energy is alarming.

Best idea ever. We need to make more media hype around this

Massive respect to these efforts.

Now I actually think that the oceans in the future won’t be as bad as we think if we do something about it

Bless that young man. Fucking thank you, kid. You’re doing a job for the entire planet, essentially as a kid. I wish I could help.

This young man and the team involved in this clean up should get some sort of international price. How can we make more fronts like this to better our world? This is very good inspiration for many of us for it shows that it is the most important to teach and have ideals and values that can be then grounded in reality. Congratulations!

Every country on this planet should be paying in to this amazing project👍👍👍👍don’t give up your doing a great job

I think it's amazing. It seems like something is finally being done about this serious problem.

This is very inspiring. If only we could all spend more of our time and energy thinking about how we can make this world better for everyone - and then do it. Kudos to Slat.

Trash dumping companies, sewage management companies, and plastic manufacturers all need to help foot the bill for this cleanup and prevention. It will never truly get done until that happens.

Thank you Boyan Slat...you saw...you move with action!

The System in the pacific is already worthy of a Nobel Prize, but the Interceptors are the real deal.

This project is most notable and certainly very laudable. The world ought to encourage the effort of these people and support be extended by the world's most progressive countries. I breathe a sigh of relief for the environment which has been taking a tremendous beating from the world's population which over time will lead to the demise of the this only planet we call home.

i Don't care about it will success ot fail. What i do care about is someone is doing something. Someone has a feeling for this world where they lived. And i respect that ❣️

Kudos to anyone involved in this never ending cleanup of our oceans.

This is a noble attempt, and I truly have huge respect and admiration for this young man’s passion to save our oceans. However, the design engineer in me, thinks there is a better way. It would be more complex at first to build, but it would work with a high degree of efficiency. So if anyone is reading this comment and wants to go off and patent what I’m about to say, Godspeed you can have it. 😊🙏🏼 You would have to get with a Technology University with a strong curriculum for machine learning, robotics, and AI. Here’s why. Design a fleet of water drone vehicle that are electrically powered with similar high capacity lithium ion batteries like the new Hummer EV truck. Or even the power train and battery pack of the new Tesla Semi freight truck. The design of this drone would be a series of solar panels across the entire upper span of the body of the water drone, but but the underbelly hull of the water drone is where all the magic happens. At the underbelly hull, will be a series of cameras capable of not just regular optics, but thermal infrared lenses, able to see underwater based on heat and temperature signatures. Just as Tesla’s autopilot system, this water drone will have something similar, where it will be able to AI navigate itself, learn its surroundings, and be able to most importantly? Distinguish between biological life (fish, underwater vegetation, etc.) and foreign particles of plastic. The underwater vehicle will have a schedule. Stay stationary floating during the daytime, as the solar panels for 12 hours a day collect energy for the batteries, so work begins AT NIGHT. As night falls, the water drones begin a pre-set route an operator programmed to them, as they take this route and begin to collect all foreign plastic particles they are sensing via thermal and optical lenses. There will be two robotic arms extended from the hull that can reach out and grapple the plastic item, maneuvering it to a netting containment region in the middle of the underbelly of the hull. Through additional sensors, the capacity of the netting containment area is monitored via AI, until it’s sensed the netting containment unit has been fully filled. A larger boat in the area acts as the transfer boat for all water drones around the area. The water drone simply comes back to the “mother ship” where a human crew will retrieve the filled up cargo netting, and either immediately replacing it with an empty one, or dumping the filled one immediately into a larger container on the boat, and then re-placing the cargo netting back at the under belly of the drone, so it can be redeployed. The “mother ship” will also perform all routine maintenance of the water drones in the area. Another alternate to this operational variant, is if the AI becomes too difficult for a computer to determine what is plastics and what isn’t, just like the military has drone pilots operating drones at a command center remotely, so too can these water drones be human piloted, where the human has a live video feed and joystick, literally controlling the navigation of the water drone and its robotic grappling arms, in real time. The communications is not happening via strong satellite or radio frequencies, but more close range radio frequencies being transmitted by the mother ship where the water drone pilots are, controlling the drones within a 1 mile radius of the mother ship at all times. If the drone needs extra charging for the batteries, it can also head back to the mother ship, where on board power could also come from even more ship mounted solar panels, to store energy on ship installed battery arrays. But the point of my idea is let the drones do all the work nightly, and just have a human crew supervising them.

I support and respect Boyan and the team for their tremendous work....God Bless

Thank you thank you thank you. My heart aches at the thought of how we have hurt our planet. You deserve medals...

ITS SO HEARTWARMING TO SEE THE YOUNG GENERATION T AS KING THE LEAD TO CLEAN UP OUR ENVIRONMENT. KUDOS TO THE TEAM

That's a great project. Hope it gets more recognition and funds.

This Idea is absolutly insane, but great!

I love your videos, keep up the hard work. 🔥

Thanks for all the work at promoting this issue and solution! With the help of all humankind, we can help protect the environment if we just change our mindset!

Thanks a lot for looking and cleaning our ocean

Finally, someone is actually acting on ground instead of only lecturing and tweeting in exchange of money from interest groups!!!!

I am such a fan of this project.

boyan is doing great work!! there are river cleaning machines he built that are running in Malaysia where i'm from.

Hands up to the brilliant mind. Let's keep saving the ocean and earth before it's too late

Watching from Greece.hi everybody. May this program succeed.and it will if everyone of us help.everyone of us can make the difference.NO plastic in the sea or coast.

Mr Boyan Slat is a conscientious n a man with a good heart. Thanks to you n the team of scientists who help carried out. the planned that helped clean the ocean!

Thank you for spending the time to create and share this content

I hope their recent success gets the attention of larger foundations, leading to more finding and accelerated cleanup. The video started off depressing but I felt very hopeful by the end

I walk daily and clean the sides of the roads of mostly cans but some plastic. I'm disabled and can't work. So I do this to try and get cans for money. Plus to feel like I can do something worthwhile. More people should clean their areas. Especially near rivers. Thanks for what you do

To the person reading this: Even though I don't know you, I wish you the best of what life has to offer.

So proud of these people and especially the young man. Thank you

Back in the mid 1980s I ran a polyethylene recycling operation in Sydney, Australia. It was not for garbage but rather at the very beginning of the cycle - at the commercial extrusion end, from pellets to film for bags. Everyday, we recycled film from start-up and size changes back into pellet feedstock - 1000Kgs per day. The dirtier the waste, the more ineffectual was the re-cycling. In my professional opinion, it is actually better to "fix" this dirty plastic into roads and buildings or other non-critical/non-structural components than to turn it back into film for bags!!!

God Bless those guys for cleaning our oceans

Great job guys may God bless u all

I hope all my best that this succeed. Our ocean is important

As we do not see what is happening at ocean, we ignore them all. Many documentaries should be shown to the world. It is not only a saving the life of a giant fish or turtle, but also about the area how do you call pasific garbage patch. Congrulations for solving this serious problem . You really deserve to get the applause.

Bravo... so heroic all of you!

One day, his name will be in history books !!!

O.C.iz pertinent, more then all othr; lak logic&reazon nventionz. Thanx2U,4itall!

Brilliant idea. I'm happy that someone is doing something about it.

Awesome respect to all those who are making a difference to make this a cleaner earth for our future children. Now we need to stop the wars ,and starvation of the people.and stop drugs and alcohol.any addictions

This idea sounds like a great way to save the oceans for sure.

I hope this project and projects like this get the funding and support to succeed. If we all do our little bit to stop plastic reaching the waterways in the first place....

Cleaning the ocean is the best thing a human could do.

Good start, good for those who responded to Slat and made this happen!!

Fantastic! I remember in the 70's it plastic was the way the environmentalists said. save the trees. I gre up in a country that had their own man made forests. paper bags were at the tills, everything was in glass, coke, juices etc. all the used glass bottles were given a value and could be returned to source to be used again. no plastic was in the country. now look?

This is such a great idea. I wish someone did this earlier. It just proves that profit is more important than the environment. Project Cleanup has my support. Not that it means much.

always teach your kids to recycle and clean up properly. because your teaching them how to keep the world that they will live in clean. more people should care about this stuff, not just for themselves but for the younger generations

Schools must implement community service to students as part of their curriculum to bring awareness amongst them in cleaning the environment!

This project should be sponsered by all governments in the world.🙏🙏🙏🙏

Wow 😲😲😲😲and very nice idea thanks for upload this video

I always trying to help the ocean❤ so let’s help everyone 🎉

Kudos to this guy and ocean clean up actions speak louder than words we need to keep our oceans clean and recycle more

This is the best thing I have seen in a very long time. :)

You have done an excellent job, keep up the wonderful work

Praise God that you care about the environment

Support them,my respect 😲👍 We need this kind of people in our country and give them some support 😲

Never knew Dream was this passionate about cleaning the Ocean

Please please keep it up whoever is out there doing this for our planet oh god bless you seriously thank you an infinite amount of thanks is due to any involved in this. Fuck this makes me happy.

Yeah let’s go! Let’s help save the world 🌎

Absolutely fantastic, what an initiative.

Amazing initiative. We should try to have initiative to stop the plastic flowing into ocean and rivers. Another one to correctly gather plastic and recycle.

i think ocean cleanup is a GREAT IDEA! it is pretty useful and helpful thing.

very impressive, I am very interested to know the next phase 03.

This video gave me goosebumps like someone at an age of 16 was really able to do this and the effort really huge respect for this guy we wish you luck

If we cannot contribute to cleanup ocean, rivers etc. we must atleast not through rubbish while being responsible . Very nice initiative by the team and lots of success to you 👍

This is so so good..... 🥺His thinking is so motivating..... I love his courage n that he never gave up.

Amazing work!

Great job!💖🤗💖🤗💖

An inspirational journey for the commitment

I think every plastic manufacturer should be required to provide funding to this type of clean up activity based on the company product output. That would make it equal for each manufacturer. They would pass it along in price increases and those that use plastics would ultimately pay this cost.

The best project I've ever seen Wish you success

It is great project for the world.

Awesome work mate. I've seen in some of the third world countries who struggle to survive and have no garbage disposal systems in villages where the rubbish ends up in the rivers where they bath and use water as no where else to get. To help with clean up of oceans these rivers need to be cleaned otherwise ocean will continuously fill back up with rubbish/plastics. If I had billions of dollars i would help as much as I could. Sadly struggling myself but I never drop rubbish anywhere but bins. Countries needs to combine and pick up their act so this planet survives, not fight and invade land. There won't be anything left worth fighting each other for, that will be the day countries try and do something but it will be too late.

Absolutely awesome project, keep it up 👍🏻

Great video👌

I really think that Slat is inspiring. Just wow from dream to reality!

Nice video

Very encouraging project. Also need to find out the channels the garbages are coming from. Countries contributing the most have to take responsibility to improve their swerage system, educate their country men.

Amazing vid thx for the garbage patch update

This guy's motive and dream is a hundred times better than elon's in my opinion. Instead of going out in a world with so many uncertainties, why dont we first make our world a livable place.

This is an amazing idea 💡

1,000 years is a stretch but its so good to see this

Good Project!

Outstanding .

Please save this world and save this animal save for life Don't used for plastic Nature gives us everything, everyone keep her alive, save nature, save animals and life

I praise these humans ❤🎉

Respect to all who are involve

If ware helping each other we can achieve to pull it out those garbage in the Pacific that three times sa size of France.. we need more volunteers to that and so we can clean it together and so the 1000 years would be just 1 year... Fan here in the Philippines 🌴

he is a hero

Awesome!!