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Adventure with Purpose - Return Heraclitus to Sea!

Seamanship Training | Documenting Impacts of Sea Rise | Ocean Education & Research

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Adventure with Purpose - Return Heraclitus to Sea!

Adventure with Purpose - Return Heraclitus to Sea!

Adventure with Purpose - Return Heraclitus to Sea!

Adventure with Purpose - Return Heraclitus to Sea!

Adventure with Purpose - Return Heraclitus to Sea!

Seamanship Training | Documenting Impacts of Sea Rise | Ocean Education & Research

Seamanship Training | Documenting Impacts of Sea Rise | Ocean Education & Research

Seamanship Training | Documenting Impacts of Sea Rise | Ocean Education & Research

Seamanship Training | Documenting Impacts of Sea Rise | Ocean Education & Research

Deborah Snyder
Deborah Snyder
Deborah Snyder
Deborah Snyder
1 Campaign |
Santa Fe, United States
$1,200 USD 19 backers
2% of $60,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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Captain's Personal Thanks

Captain's Personal Thanks

$10 USD
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Live online tour Heraclitus

Live online tour Heraclitus

$25 USD
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Choice of E-Book

Choice of E-Book

$50 USD
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HERACLITUS Mug

HERACLITUS Mug

$75 USD
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Heraclitus Cap

Heraclitus Cap

$100 USD
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Heraclitus T-Shirt

Heraclitus T-Shirt

$150 USD
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Private Tour Synergia Ranch

Private Tour Synergia Ranch

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Stay in the Rainforest

Stay in the Rainforest

$350 USD
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Santa Fe Dinner for 2

Santa Fe Dinner for 2

$750 USD
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Tour the Ship & Stay in Spain

Tour the Ship & Stay in Spain

$1,000 USD
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Stay at Historic Orchard House

Stay at Historic Orchard House

$1,500 USD
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Enchanting Embroidery

Enchanting Embroidery

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Original Painting Sibel Güler

Original Painting Sibel Güler

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Original Painting 3T Vakil

Original Painting 3T Vakil

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Sea People Training Program

Sea People Training Program

$10,000 USD
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Legendary Sailing Ship Heraclitus Rebuild Nears Completion

Seamanship Training | Documenting Impacts of Sea Rise | Ocean Education & Research

Adventure with purpose can be hard to find, but the Research Heraclitus offers exactly that. The 84' Chinese Junk with a ferrocement hull is one of the most exceptional seafaring vessels ever built. It has decades of experience conducting expeditions to remote coastal cultures, serving as platform for numerous citizen science initiatives, documentary films, and conducting training programs for hundreds of individuals of all ages in seamanship.

Since 1975, the Research Vessel Heraclitus has been documenting remote coastal areas, conducting citizen science programs, collecting data in marine ecologies, mapping and monitoring coral reefs in the Caribbean, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, SE Asia and the Pacific, making film documentaries and logging over 100 hours in oral history documentation of the SeaPeople of the Mediterranean: lighthouse operators, fishermen, ship's captains describing their lives and changes observed over the last few decades. The documentation from the Mediterranean Oral History expedition are being made available through a digital commons in 2025.

Why Now?

The Ocean biome of Planet Earth faces possible ecosystem collapse, species extinction and coastal communities will take the brunt of the impact from sea rise. We are here to continue to sail the worlds oceans, witness and document, educate and train the next generation of ocean going explorers.

The Heraclitus hull is now fully restored and ready to be sealed, and one step closer towards being back in the ocean. With your help, we can finish the rebuild and be back at Sea in 2025 and launch into a new era of planetary exploration. 

To learn more about the ship, its history and future programs, visit www.rvheraclitus.org

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