Why row over 2400 miles across the Pacific Ocean, alone?: Elsa Hammond at TEDxBathUniversity

In June 2014, Elsa Hammond will set off from Monterey Bay, CA to row 2,400 miles across the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii. She will be alone and unsupported for three months, facing 40 foot waves, great white sharks, and rowing through the 'great Pacific garbage patch,' the most notorious example of concentrated plastic pollution in our oceans. She hopes to raise awareness of the extent and severity of plastic pollution through the challenge, and will continue to blog and update from the Pacific Ocean. She is half way through a PhD in English Literature, and is particularly interested in the cross-curricular opportunities that this project presents to schools and young people.

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