The Society

The Society

	The Society
	Message from Chairman, Michael T. Moore
	Message from Don Tomlin Chairman Emeritus
	Board of Directors
	Founding Members
	Management
	International Representative

SeaKeepers Professionals

The International Seakeepers Society Mission Statement
An organization of international leaders which promotes synergy among citizens, governments, educational institutions and corporations to restore and protect the world's oceans.

The International SeaKeepers was founded in 1998 by a small group of yacht owners who were horrified by the deteriorating conditions of the seas. Their initial mission was to develop a compact, automated and cost-effective ocean and atmospheric monitoring system to install aboard their yachts, providing data to scientists on the health of the world’s oceans. Our innovative SeaKeeper 1000™ is now deployed in more than 45 locations around the world, including yachts, cruise ships, ferry boats, buoys and piers. Inquiries and orders for additional SeaKeeper 1000 units now numbers more than 20.

The SeaKeeper 1000™ is endorsed by the United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization. Scripps Institution of Oceanography has a SeaKeeper system installed as part of their ocean monitoring program and is using it as a basis for a proposed large-scale Coastal Monitoring Project. NOAA and the U.S. National Weather Service continue to purchase the SeaKeeper 1000 for NOAA vessels, and to add SeaKeeper's oceanographic monitoring to many of the government weather buoys moored at sea. The Society was also awarded the prestigious Tech Museum Award for Technology Benefitting Humanity in 2002.

Members of the SeaKeepers Society recognize the ocean’s critical importance to the life of our planet and are deeply committed to finding real-world solutions to the problems now plaguing our seas. Our small, but very influential membership includes entrepreneurs, yachtsmen, corporations, divers, scientists and concerned citizens in building this global effort to help restore and protect the world’s oceans.

[Message from Chairman Michael T. Moore]

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.
Rachael Carson
The Sea Around Us

Fish currently supply the greatest percentage of the world's protein consumed by humans. This fact may soon change, however, given that most of the world's major fisheries are being fished at levels above their maximum sustainable yield. More than 70% of the world's fisheries are overexploited. The global fishing fleet is estimated to be 250% larger than needed to catch what the ocean can sustain. (MarineBio.org)