If there were 3 whales left in the Ocean and a boat was leaving the harbour to kill them, what would you do?.......

What we do...

Well we are in that position, except it's not just whales but all life in the Ocean, 50% has been killed over the last 70 years, and the remaining plankton life is dying at a rate of 1% year on year. On our research yacht COPEPOD, we are out on the oceans trying to stop the destruction by;

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1. The largest ever Citizen Science project to measure plankton and pollution in the world's oceans, a managed on yacht COPEPOD

3. Delivering GOES presentation at every port and at international events, COP26 Presentation by Dr.Howard Dryden

4. Providing information and advice on ocean conservation for; marinas, ports, tour companies, tourists, water companies, governments and industry. Currently we have a project to provide the first Waste water treatment system for a hospital in Grenada, we will also be working with indigenous people in Panama

5. Running classes for children and adults, we have microscopes on board for showing children the wonders of marine life below the surface

You can make a difference too....

A child was walking along a beach after a storm and found it covered in starfish. Upset at the sight, the child started putting them back in the water one by one. An old man came up and said “what are you doing? There are thousands of starfish-way too many to make a difference” The child looked at the old man, picked up a starfish and put it in the ocean and said. “It made a difference to that one”.

If we all do something such as stop using cosmetics containing Oxybenzone, or reduce the use of plastic, it will make a difference

Mission of Copepod

Plankton from the latin meaning Ocean Drifter include plants (phytoplankton) and animals (zooplankton). Copepods are zooplankton from the Subphylum Crustacea, there are 13,000  species of Copepod and this is also the name of our research yacht.  We are the only yacht in the world called Copepod.

Our vision and mission is to restore the health of our oceans, mitigate climate change, and bring our planet back to is natural condition before the Chemical Revolution started with the production of toxic forever chemicals and plastic in the 1950’s.

Marine plankton are the lungs for the entire planet, but we have polluted the oceans and poisoned more than 50% of all life. Currently the plankton is dying at a rate of 1% year on year, in 25 years nearly 90% will be lost. We will also lose all the whales, birds, seals and food supply for 2 billion people. We will have runaway climate change, because the life support system for the plant will be gone. We can can recover the oceans if we eliminate micro plastic, partially combusted carbon and toxic chemical pollution and this is the Mission of the GOES Foundation.

Research yacht COPEPOD

The World's Greatest Carbon Bank

Few people have ever heard of marine Copepods, they are tiny marine insects of around 1mm in size. They are the most numerous animal on the planet, and collectively have more mass than all terrestrial animals combined, they represent the greatest Carbon Bank, and our best hope to save the planet from climate change.

There are 5 giga tonnes of Copepods in the world's oceans, this is equivalent to 17 million 747 jumbo jets, and if you laid the jets nose to tail, they would go around the Earth 31 times. Every night they migrate from a depth of 200m to the surface to feed on algae. The mass migration moves more water than the moon and the tides, yet this has not been factored into the climate change model.

The copepods defecate 30 times more carbon than humanity inputs from burning fossil fuels. Around 6 % reaches the abyss where it is locked out. This is your real carbon bank where 3 giga tonnes are deposited every year.

Yet we have killed more than 50% of the copepods from pollution over the last 70 years because they love to eat micro-plastic loaded with toxic chemicals. In 25 years time 90% will be gone. We are too late to stop climate change, it's now a question of survival for humanity. If we are going to have any chance of survival, we need to stop the pollution and save the oceans. This is why our research vessel is called COPEPOD.

Sustainable drinking water for rural communities

The Goes Foundation is the CSR project for www.CleanWaterWave.com which is a 100% asset locked social enterprise to bring sustainable wastewater treatment and clean drinking water to communities around the world that do not have access to clean water and can't afford to buy water.

Many of the island communities and places we visit are water and economically stressed communities where up to 80% of all disease is from the consumption of contaminated water. 

The CleanWaterWave team have developed 100% sustainable drinking water systems.  In all our travels in Africa and SE Asia we have never seen a rural community drinking water system running for more than 12 months. The CWW CAFE filter (Clean Aqua For Everyone) aims to solve this problem.