SOS Ocean Racing Gulf of Carpentaria

5:51 AM Sun 9 May 2010 GMT

'SAM 0015 - Save Our Seas Ocean Racing' Ian Thomson Click Here to view large photo

'I'm into Arafura, at 2130 last night I cleared the final marker and now I am out into the deep blue again. Although it isn't that deep up here.' It is day five into Ian Thomson's solo sailing world record attempt. Save Our Seas Ocean Racing departed Airlie Beach on the fifth of May at 1030 in an effort to break the world record for sailing non-stop solo around Australia. Ian's mission is about raising awareness of what the damage plastic bags do to our environment. He aims is to raise an understanding in everyday Australian to think before they ...

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