our history
Love The Sea is a non-profit organization co-founded in 2015 by Big Daddy Carlos and our CEO Campbell Farrell, a passionate waterman who decided to make a change for the well being of our ocean and its inhabitants. Campbell had joined forces with Carlos Adley and Ava Berman to co-create and produce Ocean Aid 2017 for Love The Sea, a music and art festival in Hawaii to raise awareness about plastic pollution in the ocean. Ocean Aid spot lighted action from community leaders and non profit organizations who have worked hard to protect Hawaii’s coastal habitats from plastic.
OUR MISSION
Inspiring action towards the recovery and mitigation of ocean plastic around the entire world. Love The Sea is on a mission with coalition partners to monitor and clean every oceanfront mile within the Hawaiian Islands and beyond.
OUR VISION
A healthy ocean.
Abundant with life.
Plastic free.
Abundant with life.
Plastic free.
achievements
- With support from coalition partners, in just 18 months, over 50,000 lb of plastic was collectively removed from Maui County coastlines. From that, 40,000 lb. of plastic, net and line debris was diverted from landfill.
- During Britt Daniels' hike around Maui, our team circumnavigated the island by jet-ski and identified an estimated 40,000 lb. plus of ocean plastic collecting on its coastline.
- In a pilot program supported by Parley and Ocean Voyages Institute, Love The Sea searched Maui County waters between Lanai and Molokai by helicopter and successfully GPS marked a large ghost net, that was later tracked and retrieved by our team.
- Love The Sea supported the Eat Less Plastic voyage from Los Angeles to Auckland New Zealand, during an eight nation, seven month, 7,000 mile journey to spot light the issues of plastic pollution in the Pacific Rim.
- Love The Sea united collation partners while hosting Ocean Aid festival. The inaugural event was broadcast on TV across Hawaii to create awareness of ocean plastic pollution.
