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One man's mission to save Cornwall's creeks from rotting fibreglass boats

One man's mission to save Cornwall's creeks from rotting fibreglass boats

Steve Green, a boat engineer from Cornwall, is on a remarkable one-man mission to clear 166 abandoned fibreglass yachts from the hidden creeks of the Helford and Fal rivers. And here's the thing - marine biologists have found thousands of fibreglass shards embedded in sea creatures near these wrecks, comparing the pollution to asbestos. Green does all of this with his wonderfully eccentric chip-oil-powered VW campervan Cecil, complete with a crane on the front, and a 100-year-old wooden schooner called Annie. His organisation, Clean Ocean Sailing, runs on small grants and crowdfunding - and Green even ran up £8,000 on credit cards last year just to keep the work going.
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