Ocean Day project at Emsworth
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00:01I'm Dylan Fletcher, driver on board Emirates GBR Sail GP team and we're down here today in Emsworth Yacht Harbour
00:09and we've got a sustainability project going on with the Blue Ocean Foundation about oysters which is fantastic
00:15and we've got a group from the local primary school and we're hoping teaching them about sustainability
00:20and what they can do to help improve our, you know, the climate.
00:24Ultimately, you know, we're part of the STEM 1851, or there's this 1851 trust which teaches STEM
00:30and so what we're teaching them today is about biodiversity and how what they can do has a real impact on this world
00:37and just really teaching them about the ocean and what it has to do with the whole life, you know, how much CO2 it's taking in
00:44and then the sort of more to the point like here on Emsworth Harbour and what they're doing with the oysters
00:50and trying to reintroduce the native oyster and, you know, bring the population back to help balance that biodiversity.
00:58Hi, my name's Kai Hockley, I'm 19 years old and I'm the youth development sailor for Emirates GBR Sail GP team.
01:05Today we're down in Emsworth working with the Blue Marine Foundation on all their great work with the oysters.
01:12Yeah, it's been really great learning about what oysters are, how they're important to their ecosystem
01:19and really just getting a better understanding of the marine biology around the Portsmouth and Solent area.
01:25Like, it's a really key factor that everyone should know because before coming here I didn't know how much oysters played a vital impact in the Solent.
01:36So, yeah, I think it's really good to understand what makes your ecosystem around you tick and also the problems that are occurring around it
01:45and how people are trying to find the solutions to it.
01:48Yeah, so I'm Fiona Morgan, the Chief Purpose Officer at Sail GP and a bit about me, I love the ocean, I love sports and I love the planet.
01:58And it's just an incredible entertainment product, it really is, and I do think it's like Formula One in the water.
02:04And it's something very exciting that hopefully the UK can kind of get behind and embrace.
02:09And obviously a big thing we're here today is to talk about the ocean and I suppose what I love about my job is the ocean's our racetrack.
02:16And we really do care, our athletes are here, they've seen the devastation in the ocean.
02:21And so one of our jobs at Sail GP is to be an advocate and actually talk about the ocean health and it's a big year.
02:28We've just had David Attenborough obviously release his film and I was very privileged to be at that premiere.
02:34And it was heartbreakingly kind of heartbreakingly hopeful is what I would say.
02:39So it's shining a spotlight on what we need to do.
02:42You can't see the ocean trouble is invisible.
02:44I look at it, it looks great, but actually underneath it's, you know, devastating the impacts that it's had.
02:49So we're here around World Ocean Day on the ocean talking about how important it is
02:54and telling these young kids today just to value it and spread the word and understand that, you know,
03:00the ocean is literally the life kind of, the lifeblood of the planet every second breath comes from the ocean.