Brandon Boyd

There are five known gyres spinning around in our world’s oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents. A spinning soup, so to speak, is made of what exists in the water. And in this case, the gyres are spinning with millions of tons of our discarded and forgotten about plastic waste!

That first plunge under the shore break on a chilly fall morning. It forces a sound out of one’s body that is kind of a whoo-ahhh! – shocking and refreshing all at once. You become acutely aware of your body and your surroundings, which is helpful when you’re about to paddle out to sea.