Humans toss all kind of things into the ocean, including approximately eight million tons of plastic each year, much to the detriment of, well, the entire ocean food web. Every sailor has seen trash like this and shed a tear, but sometimes you come across something surprising, out of place, that can generate a smile.
You spy something just below the surface and think it could be a whale or a turtle and then …In January 2012, I sailed across the Atlantic Ocean with five other amateur sailors. About 500 nautical miles from our starting point in Cape Verde, off the west coast of Africa, we came across a lone surfboard riding the tall ocean waves. Earlier today, English skipper Annie Gilbert had one of these moments, too. Gilbert is a commercial skipper specializing in line-caught, sustainable fishing, and was sailing out of Poole, Dorset, when she spotted something weird. “We saw something bobbing and I thought: what’s that?” she writes in a direct message on Twitter.
The object turned out to be a Spalding basketball, relatively unmarred on the top but…
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