Message in a bottle
Updated On: 15 December, 2009 07:55 AM IST | | Khalid A-H Ansari
Protestor plans to swim 9,000 km, from Japan to US, in plastic bottle
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Protestor plans to swim 9,000 km, from Japan to US, in plastic bottle
The 100,000 protestors at the climate summit in Copenhagen may have made an eloquent case for their concerns but, for sheer drama, Sunday's demonstration pales into insignificance compared to the missionary zeal of an Australian environmentalist.
Australian Richard Pain, a keen ocean swimmer, is planning to swim from Japan to the US in a 6-metre plastic bottle to raise awareness of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a floating mass of plastic junk threatening the Ocean.
The bottle will be towed by a boat on the 9,000-km Odyssey with his fiancu00e9e, Natasha, pregnant with their first child, on board.
Made from thousands of used water bottles, the huge bottle will act as a shark cage and a reminder of the plastic waste in the Ocean in an area approximating Australia's vast Northern Territory.
"I realise it's completely mad, "the 45-year old filmmaker Pain said over the weekend of his planned man-in-a-bottle message to humankind.
He is planning to sell his Sydney home to raise some of the money needed for his mind-boggling undertaking.
"I'm aware that there is a lot of fatigue in the broader population.
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