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, the World Meteorological Organization, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, NOAA and the U.S. National Weather Service. The Society was also awarded the prestigious Tech Museum Award for Technology Benefiting Humanity in 2002.
SUPERYACHT INDUSTRY RALLIES BEHIND
SEAKEEPERS SOCIETY
Responding to their own concern, in part fueled by the enormous amount of recent media attention around the issues of global warming, collapsing fisheries and deteriorating marine health, members of the yachting industry are rallying in support of the programs and overall mission of the International SeaKeepers Society.
In 2006 six prominent yacht builders – Feadship, Christensen, Benetti, Lürssen, Trinity, Delta – joined Oceanco as official yacht partners in the Society. Oceanco pioneered the yacht partnership program by agreeing in 2005 to install SeaKeeper 1000® ocean monitors on every new launch. Besides providing critical financial support, the Yacht Partner program gives the Society important access to potential new private members. The program also provides both the organization and its partners the ability to create small, effective marketing opportunities where SeaKeeper members can meet with their peers, typically aboard the new vessels launched from Yacht Partner shipyards. As part of its SeaKeepers partnership, Feadship has also agreed to design the Society’s exciting new SeaKiosk. Likewise, Benetti has broadened its basic support by inviting SeaKeepers to its annual yacht captain’s seminar and to contribute a major article about the important work of the organization in its glossy in-house magazine.
