Sea Bird Adventure

Save The Seabird

Help Us Save the Sea Bird from being Salvaged!!!

We have received some very bad news from the Sellers of the Seabird. Even though we have been working on corporate funding for the past year to complete the purchase and are getting ready to have the Sea Bird configured for environmental oceanic research specifically dealing with the effect of global warming on our oceans we have met with a great deal of enthusiasm but with no contributions.

We are now faced with completing the purchase in the next few days or the seller says they will scrap the Sea Bird and destroy her. We need all of you that come to this web site and read about our adventure to help us raise $300,000. This may sound like a lot, but it only takes 3000 donations of $100 to raise enough to save the ship. If you can't help, ask your friends to give 5 or 10 dollars. Every little bit helps. This money will go to Saving the Sea Bird from extinction... please help!

Welcome to the Sea Bird Adventure

The Sea Bird is a former navel vessel converted into a commercial fishing ship. Recently under new ownership, the Sea Bird is taking new direction in the world of commercial fishing. It is our goal to pioneer the way to conversion of fishing vessels from polluting diesel engines to clean energy. Ships such as the Sea Bird can burn more than 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel per day, spewing tons of green house gases into the atmosphere per year. By using proven new technology, such as clean waste-oil burning engines, emissions can be greatly reduced. Using experimental technology such as pulse detonation engines and Tesla turbines, emissions could be reduced to almost nothing. Ultimately the propulsion techniques we are working to implement on the Sea Bird could be used by not just fishing vessels, but large sea fairing vessels of all types.

We intend to fund the Sea Bird upgrades in a variety of ways and are exploring sponsorships, investments, private donations, adventure and fishing expeditions and possible government grants. If you would like to stay informed about the progress of the Sea Bird, please signup to become a member. We’ll keep you informed of Sea Bird news and any opportunities that arise.

There is also a non-profit side of the Sea Bird. In addition to fishing and clean energy, we are also hoping to educate and help others in need while having a good time and great adventure. After the conversion to clean propulsion is made, we intend to tour CA and potentially the world. In our travels we will educate people on our clean engine technology and have demonstrations. We also wish to research sustainable fishing practices and explore charitable ways of helping others. For more information on the nonprofit side of the Sea Bird click here.

Alternative Propulsion

Exploratory research is being done on a number of highly efficient and Earth friendly forms of propulsion. Pulse detonation engines are one such method being studied by the crew of the Sea Bird. Pulse detonation is the detonation of fuel at high pressure to create gas flow at super-sonic speeds. This may sound similar to a car engine, but there are several key differences. Traditional combustion engines don not detonate gas, but rather burin it very rapidly, a process know as deflagration. This relatively gentle burning of fuel certainly does not produce super-sonic gas flow. Because of the extreme pressure generated by pulse detonations, traditional valves used to time fuel burning in a combustion engine would not withstand the force. Therefore, alternative forms of timing and directing the detonation must be used. One such form is a Deflagration to Detention tube (DDT) which uses a traditional combustion to create the pressure necessary to detonate a vaporized fuel. The super sonic explosion could then be used to directly propel a vehicle or turn a specialize turbine. Because the explosion is at high pressure and high heat, the resulting exhaust is very clean compare to traditional combustion engines.

We are in the process of assembling a library of documents on alternative ship propulsion. The following articles provide valuable insight to our mission:

Well Drilling

Many of us here in the United States take clean water for granted. Certainly, it is a great pleasure to turn on a hot shower to start off a long day and it is easy to come to expect such luxury. The fact is an estimated 1.1 billion people in the world do not have access to clean drinking water. This is more than one-sixth of the world population. Considering that a human will die within 3-4 days without water, this is a frightening fact indeed. People without access to clean water are constantly battling on the edge of survival, fighting disease, famine and thirst every hour. Forget not, that without clean water, food is difficult to grow. The solution to this problem is fairly simple. Those with the power to change the situation must take on the responsibility to do so. Fortunately there are few technical barriers to providing clean water to the entire population of the world. Drilling wells can provide people in even the most desert regions a source of water. Other long-term solutions, such as desalinization, can also be used that prevent the depletion of water tables. The Sea Bird Adventure intends to take matters into our hands - and yours - to give people a new lease on life by drilling wells in regions without access to clean water and experimenting with solar desalinization. You can do your part by making a donation today.

Environmentally Friendly Fishing

The Sea Bird Adventure includes converting a traditional diesel powered fishing vessel into a modernized environmentally friendly ship. Fishing for blue tuna is an expedition that traditionally can easily burn 60,000 gallons of fuel. We are currently researching environmentally friendly ways to vastly improve the efficiency of this vessel by means of alternative fuels and propulsions. This conversion will help keep the sea and sky blue and help to prevent global warming.

The Sea Bird is also dedicated to preserving the fragile ecosystem of the ocean. While the Sea Bird is a fishing vessel, we are also working with conservationists to ensure that fishing done from the Sea Bird is done is a sustainable manner to ensure future generations will know the same great ocean that we know today.