Maiden Voyage

A crowd gathers to watch the test launch of the, “Plastic Poison,” boat made out of recycled bottles boasting a patchwork sail stitched together from second-hand button down shirts - many flaunting perilous paisley patterns - and paddles made from crutches. The Plastic Poison will emerge again on the fourth of July to promote awareness about plastic adrift in the planet’s oceans. Pictured are Marcus Eriksen, standing, Bob Sylvester, left, Beth Peluso, front right, and Carol Anderson.


Marcu Eriksen shows off a string of plastic lighters, discarded toothbrushes, small pumice stones, and even a leg from a toy doll that he picked out of the stomachs of dead albatross in the Pacific Ocean. “The Albatross will eat these toothbrushes thinking it’s a little fish,” Marcus Eriksen said.