About Live Ocean
Live Ocean is a 501(c)3 focused on Education and Marine Conservation. After extensive renovations on a generously donated sailboat, Rowena, the Live Ocean crew set sail in April 2011 on the Pacific Ocean Expedition 2011. The Expedition’s goal was to further Live Ocean’s mission to inspire the global community to protect our fragile oceans. During the Winter months, land based educational programs will be led by Live Ocean volunteers.
Live Ocean’s education programs will connect conservation groups from around the world, who follow Rowena‘s voyage to the South Pacific. You can ask the crew questions via LiveOcean.org/blog and meet up with the crew while in port, or even arrange for a crew member to visit your classroom or group. Live Ocean is also working with Puget Sound schools to build a marine conservation eco-community through service learning projects, such as storm drain stenciling. Live Ocean partners with local governments, who supply the stencils and our volunteers provide the labor. Students learn how to protect their watershed and that everything that is put down a drain or into a garden makes its way into a stream and eventually into the Ocean. By engaging in such a service learning project, the students perform a community service of marking storm drains and also learn how each person can help to protect the oceans.
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Education Program
Live Ocean’s educational programs encourage students to become leaders in a movement to educate the global community that all living things are connected to the oceans, and we must conserve and protect our resources. Participants experience firsthand the wonders of the natural world and our maritime heritage through hands-on activities both onbaord, and onshore.
Live Ocean offers programs aboard Rowena at sea, on daysails, and while in port. Live Ocean also coordinates land based marine conservation service learning projects, such as storm drain stenciling, stream restoration, and beach clean-ups. For more information, look in the menu above, in the Education section.
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Future Plans for Summer 2012
Live Ocean has has an amazing first year and we are looking forward to next summer. We are excited to be offering trips for small groups on Lake Washington, Lake Union, Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands, in Washington State.
If you, or someone you know is interested in becoming a part of these programs please contact us to be included in our planning process.
We are also hiring two USCG certified captains for next summer, please call 425-922-7364 for more information. Can’t wait till 2012!
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