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Photos & reports from the Blue Planet Odyssey Southern Route

• Key West • Jamaica • Martinique • San Blas & Panama • Galapagos • South Pacific • Indian Ocean • Atlantic Ocean

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Key West

About Key West

• Destination: Key West

Photos

• Facebook, January 2015 – Key West

Reports

• 13.08.2014-Blue Planet Odyssey to leave from Key West
• 09.01.2015-The Blue Planet Odyssey comes to life in Key West
• 09.01.2015-Cruising World: ‘Countdown to the Blue Planet Odyssey Rally!’
• 09.01.2015-Blue Planet Odyssey and Pacific Odyssey Sailors Ready to Go
• 10.01.2015-Blue Planet Odyssey Fleet Gets Ready to Set Sail
• 12.01.2015-Blue Planet Odyssey Yachts Leave Key West
• 18.01.2015-Key West Departure For No Regrets
• 23.01.2015-Taking on Drifter Buoys for the Pacific Ocean
• 01.05.2015-The Blue Planet Odyssey: Sailing around the world for a good cause

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Montego Bay, Jamaica

About Montego Bay, Jamaica

• Destination: Jamaica

Photos

• Facebook, January 2015 – Montego Bay, Jamaica

Reports

• 15.01.2015-Blue Planet Odyssey At Sea: A Good Run Key West to Montego Bay
• 19.01.2015-Blue Planet Odyssey boats get school visit in Jamaica
• 20.01.2015-Blue Planet Odyssey Update: So where are they?
• 28.01.2015-Blue Planet Odyssey Update: All Ways Lead to San Blas
• 01.05.2015-The Blue Planet Odyssey: Sailing around the world for a good cause

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Martinique

About Martinique

• Destination: Martinique

Photos

• Facebook, January 2015 – Martinique

Reports

• 10.01.2015-Blue Planet Odyssey Fleet Gets Ready to Set Sail
• 15.01.2015-The Blue Planet Odyssey and Pacific Odyssey fleet meet in Martinique
• 17.01.2015-The BPO fleet talks fishing with 2 special Martinique fishermen
• 18.01.2015-Martinique Farewell Party
• 18.01.2015-The Blue Planet & Pacific Odyssey fleet set sail from Martinique
• 20.01.2015-Blue Planet Odyssey Update: So where are they?
• 28.01.2015-Blue Planet Odyssey Update: All Ways Lead to San Blas

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San Blas & Panama

About San Blas & Panama

• Destination: San Blas
• Endangered Places: San Blas Islands
• Destination: Panama

Photos

• Facebook – Panama Canal Transit 14-15 February 2015
• Facebook – Panama Canal Transit 16-17 February 2015

Reports

• 26.10.2014-Panama – Where Time Never Stands Still
• 21.01.2015-Blue Planet Odyssey on the move
• 28.01.2015-Blue Planet Odyssey Update: All Ways Lead to San Blas
• 02.02.2015-Community Spirit in the San Blas
• 04.02.2015-Blue Planet Odyssey Reunited
• 14.02.2015-Carnival Weekend Canal Transit for the BPO
• 15.02.2015-Inspiring Visit for BPO to New Panama Canal
• 19.02.2015-A Perfect Landing: Through the Panama Canal to the Pacific
• 16.03.2015-Blue Planet Odyssey Catch Up: Aventura & Joyful are en route!
• 18.03.2015-Aventura’s Crew Ready For Next Adventure
• 21.03.2015-Friday excitement
• 31.03.2015-Transiting the Panama Canal in record time
• 01.04.2015-‘On passage with Jimmy Cornell’ – Charles Doane
• 01.05.2015-The Blue Planet Odyssey: Sailing around the world for a good cause

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Galapagos

About the Galapagos

• Destination: Galapagos
• Endangered Places: the Galapagos Islands

Photos

• Facebook – Baquerizo Moreno
• Facebook – Galapagos Wildlife
• Facebook – Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz

Reports

• 22.02.2015-First drifter buoy deployment in the Pacific
• 24.02.2015-Pacific Inspires Poetry
• 25.02.2015-Introducing… Argo floats
• 26.02.2015-BPO boats impress Galapagos inspectors
• 28.02.2015-Into the Doldrums: BPO Passage Notes to the Galapagos
• 05.03.2015-VIDEO: First Pacific Ocean drifter buoy deployments for BPO
• 11.03.2015-Successful finale to BPO Galapagos Stopover
• 19.03.2015-Galapagos round up: Memories are made of this
• 22.03.2015-What our sailors found out about the Galapagos: in their own words
• 30.03.2015-The challenges facing the Galapagos: perspectives from our sailors
• 10.04.2015-An Extra-Ordinary Act? Deployment in the Pacific: Drifter Buoys & Argo floats
• 01.05.2015-The Blue Planet Odyssey: Sailing around the world for a good cause

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South Pacific

About the destinations:

• French Polynesia
• Cook Islands
• Tokelau
• Tuvalu
• Endangered Places: Main threats and issues facing Tuvalu
• Niue
• Tonga
• Fiji
• Vanuatu

Photos

• Facebook, April 2015 – BPO-PO in the Marquesas
• Facebook, May 2015 – Time in Tahiti
• Facebook, June 2015 – Joyful’s School Skype Session in Marquesas
• Facebook, July 2015 – Tuvalu
• Facebook, August 2015 – Vanuatu – Espirito Santo
• Facebook, August 2015 – Vanuatu – Outer islands

Reports

• 15.09.2014-L’ancien président de la Polynésie française exprime son soutien au Blue Planet Odyssey
• 17.03.2015-Impressions from Vanuatu
• 28.03.2015-Elusive Trade Winds: BPO Galapagos-Marquesas so far
• 01.04.2015-First Boats Arrive in the Marquesas
• 10.04.2015-An Extra-Ordinary Act? Deployment in the Pacific: Drifter Buoys & Argo floats
• 10.04.2015-Sailor’s Days in the Marquesas
• 29.04.2015-BPO Round-up: A Taste of The Marquesas
• 01.05.2015-The Blue Planet Odyssey: Sailing around the world for a good cause
• 09.05.2015-Tahiti stopover
• 24.05.2015-Blue Planet Odyssey in Tahiti: Trash and Tourism
• 27.05.2015-Tahiti Trash: Recycling Waste
• 06.06.2015-BPO: Deeper Into The Pacific
• 09.06.2015-Skype Linking Schools Across the World
• 07.07.2015-BPO Update: Community Spirit on Palmerston Island
• 07.07.2015-VIDEO: Blue Planet Odyssey in Hiva Oa, Marquesas
• 15.07.2015-Pacific Impressions: Next Stage of The Blue Planet Odyssey
• 21.07.2015-Tokelau – so near, so far
• 23.07.2015-En route to Tuvalu
• 29.07.2015-Finally, Tuvalu : moments to treasure
• 30.07.2015-Farewell, Tuvalu
• 08.08.2015-Tropical Passage Notes
• 10.08.2015-Blue Planet Odyssey: A Santo Photo Album
• 29.08.2015-BPO Reunited in Vanuatu: Southwest Bay, Malekula
• 30.08.2015-Vanuatu Cruising: The Maskelynes
• 02.09.2015-Ambrym: Back to My Roots for the BPO
• 22.09.2015-BPO Sailors In Their Own Words: Highlights So Far
• 27.10.2015-BPO Sailors In Their Own Words: Your Biggest Surprise

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Indian Ocean

About the destinations:

• Indonesia

Reports

• 01.12.2013-Jimmy Cornell reviews the new edition of the Southeast Asia Pilot
• 27.10.2015-The Blue Planet Odyssey Discovers Indonesia
• 27.10.2015-BPO Sailors In Their Own Words: Your Biggest Surprise
• 27.11.2015-Fires and dragons: Blue Planet Odyssey Discovers Indonesia Part II
• 11.05.2016-Blue Planet Odyssey On Its Way
• 24.05.2016-Blue Planet Odyssey Heads West Across Indian Ocean
• 07.09.2016-Perfect conditions for Blue Planet Odyssey boats en route to South Africa
• 14.09.2016-Fast Passage To South Africa for Blue Planet Odyssey Boats
• 22.10.2016-Weather Windows : the BPO tackles South Africa

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Atlantic Ocean

About the destinations:

• Barbados

Reports

• 14.12.2016-Blue Planet Odyssey boats arrive in Brazil
• 12.01.2017-Blue Planet Odyssey boats have left Brazil bound for Barbados
• 22.01.2017-First Blue Planet Odyssey boat arrives in Barbados
• 02.02.2017-Blue Planet Odyssey comes to a successful end in Barbados