New Alliance with Yachts International Magazine To Take Society To "The Next Level"
The International SeaKeepers Society, the charity borne of yachtsmen, and Yachts International magazine, the #1 selling U.S. luxury yacht magazine, have announced
an exclusive, high-profile media partnership to advance SeaKeepers mission to expand science-based understanding and analysis of our changing oceans and promote better stewardship of the world's most precious resource.
“We are thrilled about this new collaboration,” said SeaKeepers Chairman Michael T. Moore. “As a leader in the megayacht publishing industry, Yachts International is an
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| Jean-Victor Pastor Joins Board of Directors
 Jean-Victor Pastor of Monaco, Managing Director of the Groupe Pastor, has been elected to the International SeaKeepers Society board of directors. A member of one of the most prominent families in Monaco, Pastor is head of the most prestigious real estate organization in Monaco, and . . . read more
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Florida University Uses SeaKeeper 1000 System in Relation to Coral Reef Ecosystem Study
Nova Southeastern University's Oceanographic Center is using a SeaKeeper 1000™ in a study to measure the exchange of water and nutrients (pollutants) through Port Everglades, using the Port Everglades Ship Channel Observatory, and to relate this exchange to its direct impact on the Southeast Coral Reef Ecosystem.
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Could the Yachting Industry Protect Cuba's Marine Environment?
The International Superyacht Society (ISS) and the International SeaKeepers Society - in their first professional collaboration - hosted a full house of more than 100 yacht crew, media and industry professionals at a forum to discuss Cuba’s maritime heritage and future. In support of SeaKeepers’ mission, Chairman Michael T. Moore extended an invitation to the country’s “goodwill ambassador to recreational boaters” to begin
a dialogue with the yachting community on how to protect the country’s maritime resources.
Through an interpreter, Commodore José Miguel Diaz Escrich, Cuba’s noted the relevancy of his country and the cause when he said... Read more |
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A Celebration and a Few Special Surprises
 The SeaKeepers Celebration! was held on the eve of the Fort Lauderdale boat show to commemorate the activation of Nova Southeastern University's SeaKeeper 1000™ system at Port Everglades, a project underwritten by the members and sponsors of SeaKeepers Professionals. The 150-plus attendees, which included many of the premier captains in the superyacht industry, were treated to a surprise appearance by
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Fisheries Service, Third NOAA Division Adds SeaKeeper 1000™ to its Data Collection Missions
SeaKeepers is proud to announce that, after being a “partner” to
both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Data Buoy Center and its National Marine Sanctuaries Program, a third division of NOAA – the National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) – will begin utilizing the innovative SeaKeeper 1000TM on its vessels as well. Recently, SeaKeepers received an impressive letter of commendation from the Under Secretary of the US Department of Commerce for Oceans and
Atmosphere and Administrator of NOAA. In it the SeaKeeper 1000 system was acknowledged for being “well known and used throughout NOAA” and that the data collected ...read more
The SeaKeeper 1000 system is being deployed on NOAA's F/V Excalibur.
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YSI Appointed Exclusive Licensee for SeaKeeper 1000™
 The SeaKeepers board of directors recently approved an agreement to extend a license to YSI, a major company in the field of water quality monitoring, to develop commercial markets for the SeaKeeper 1000™ oceanographic, atmospheric and climate monitoring system.
The move, which has been in discussion by the board for several years, accomplishes several critical objectives simultaneously. It eliminates significant overhead from the charity, which in the past half-dozen years has seen its costs escalate dramatically ...read more |
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Scientists Find New Hope For Fisheries
Steps to curb overfishing are beginning to show success—at least in some areas—according to an international team of scientists whose study appears in the July 31, 2009, issue of Science. The researchers, led by Boris Worm of Dalhousie University and Ray Hilborn of the University of Washington, used what they call a “Russian doll” of layered data sets never combined before to examine current trends in the abundance of fish and the proportion of those fish caught in 10 large marine ecosystems. They ended up with some positive results...read more |
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Under the leadership of Dr. Mark E. Luther at the University of South Florida, the hydrocarbon sensor has been successfully deployed to the area of the spill on R/V WeatherBird II. SeaKeepers’ ability to gather meteorological and oceanographic data provides a more comprehensive dataset. "The SeaKeeper 1000 system is a powerful ocean observing tool capable of collecting, and both spatially and temporally tagging data from multiple meteorological and in-water sensors from a variety of manufacturers, with real-time data telemetry via satellite," said Dr. Luther, Associate Professor and Director of the USF Ocean Monitoring and Prediction Lab. . . Read More
