THE SOCIETY
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.  |
