"Is there any future for this most precious of ocean treasures?" asked Attenborough, corals looking worse for wear as a plastic bottle sailed by, as incongruous as a digital watch in Ben Hur.
The shells looked like Fourth of July bottle rockets, sailing over the ridge ahead as if fired by children, exploding in a whoosh of sparks.
Drinkers panic-bought in early 2013, and continued their spree into Ramadan, when alcohol sales usually plummet by up to 70percentthoughugh no one told the ostensibly Muslim Uzbeks, who threw a riotous embassy party in last year's holy month, which culminated in vodka bottles sailing over the wall onto the street).
He had made a coke bottle kayak and paddled it down the L.A. River, and he made a giant sailboat from coke bottles and sailed to Hawaii.
— in front of the Laundromat where she has been unconscious in the hammock of his narrative for most of this day — the snake in the tree above them was digesting a small deer — the deer's bones like a ghost ship blossoming as a mere trick inside a clear bottle — it now sails past the day moon on her long bare arm which she scratches with the calloused toe of a croissant, the coffee is bitter enough.
We heard from David de Rothschild, who built the Plastiki, an ocean-going boat made from plastic water bottles and spent four months sailing it across the Pacific.
Now he's trying to push the boundaries of naval architecture possibly beyond their actual limits by building a boat out of plastic bottles that will sail across the Pacific.
But the thing about ships in bottles is that they're not sailing anywhere.
A keen adventurer who had already crossed the Arctic and Antarctica, he decided to publicize the problem by sailing across the Pacific in a boat made from plastic bottles like those littering the ocean.
On March 20, the Plastiki, a 60-foot vessel made from recycled plastic bottles, set sail from San Francisco Bay on an 11,000-mile voyage to Sydney, Australia.
