Completed Projects
Discover the completed projects aided by the Yachts for Science programme. If you would like to offer space on board your yacht or if you have a research project to submit, please contact us.
UK
Help Our Kelp
In the summer of 2019, Sussex Inshore Fisheries & Conservation Authority (IFCA) aboard their patrol vessel Watchful for a day at sea. Using a towed camera to survey the seabed, we examined the full length of the forest’s historical habitat. Our propeller remained untangled throughout; we saw no kelp at all. The survey laid bare the extent of kelp loss in the area – practically an entire ecosystem lost in just a few decades.
Indonesia
Studying Black Corals
When scientist Erika Gress and superyacht owner Mark Robba connected via our Yachts for Science programme last year, it spawned a unique research trip studying black coral in Indonesia’s Raja Ampat.
Maldives
Oceanic Manta Rays
Simon Hilbourne spent five days as a guest onboard a private charter yacht. Simon is studying a population of endangered oceanic mantas which pass through the south of the Maldives every year for a couple of weeks in March or April. Up to 200 pass through during this finite window every year and we try to collect as much data as we can and then they gone for another year.
Italy
Great White Shark Chase
Boat was funded by philanthropist Irene Reynolds Schier to support Francesco and his team in an unprecedented expedition to detect, film, and tag white sharks in the Mediterranean Sea. This is one of the most endangered and least understood white shark populations in the world, and the expedition will collect important data to study these sharks and avoid their extinction in the region.
UK
Decoding the Deep
When marine biologist Dr Paige Maroni boarded Secret Atlas's micro-cruise to the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard this summer, little did she expect what she'd find 100 metres under the sea. That’s where Yachts For Science comes in, an organisation which connects yacht owners with the scientific community in the name of ocean conservation.
Dominican Republic
Humpback Whales in DR
In April, the Dominican Republic announced the expansion of its marine protected area (MPA), part of a commitment to the global 30x30 initiative to conserve 30 per cent of land and sea for biodiversity by 2030 – the only difference being that the DR, determined to press on in Mera’s memory, was doing it six years before anyone else in the region
