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9:10 PM Sat 9 Apr 2011 GMT

'Protei sailing boat model' .

Recent man-made disasters have been every bit as serious, if not more so, than the recent spate of natural - and unnatural - disasters on the planet. Whether natural or man-made, they all affect the world of the sailor, the ocean. Nations have been paying lip service to trying to curb global warming, but what about thinking ahead about coping with oil spills and radiated seas? According to Morgan Clendaniel of Fast Company , that's where the Protei Project and its fleet of sailing boats come in. Imagine if, after the next Deepwater-esque oil spill, we simply deployed a fleet of inflatable ...

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by Morgan Clendaniel, Fast Company

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