RISE – Together for Mozambique (Official Music Video)

Cyclone Idai has left Beira and surrounds in a real mess. But it would have been far worse if not for the humanitarian aid that poured in.

The effort came from far and wide as governments donated aircrafts full of equipment and personnel. Navies lent ships. Armies lent helicopters. Fishermen lent boats. Farmers lent tractors. Transport companies sent trucks up and down. And individuals and emergency organisations gave their all. Too many to mention but even one.

And so, to commemorate this the biggest natural disaster of it’s type to ever hit Mozambique or surrounds, here is a song, put together by the good folks on Maputo.

Thank you to Captain Duarte Rato (FishBazaruto) for sending us this music video. And a huge thank you to all those who got involved. From the people of Beira and surrounds.

We’re going tagging and releasing this 2019!

When Rudi van de Elst first approached us way back in the 80’s, to assist with his and ORI’s new born tagging and releasing initiative, we were all very curious.

Straight off the bat, we changed one of our league competitions, to tag and release. We were fishing 6kg line back then, and in order to qualify for Southern Natal colours, you had to do really well in the light tackle league. Then you would fish for Southern Natal, at the regionals. Then you would do really well at that level, you could nominate for a berth in the full Natal blazer. A huge honour, as it still is today.

Anyway, fishing on the original black Niteshift, we headed to The Block, off Port Shepstone, to target garrick that particular day. Whilst everyone else in the fleet headed to Protea to battle the tuna away from the sharks.

We got so lucky that beautiful morning!

Garrick are tough. Tough fighters too. But they really don’t mind a tag. In fact they were all really still angry and fighting fit when we chucked them back in.

We would pop out a kilometre or so, and catch a few pinkies. Then rig them with a single hook through the nose. My Dad as dedicated skipper, would then head straight for the beach at Port Shepstone, during a lull, taking care not to hit any of the many submerged bombies in that bay. Then he would turn hard at the shorebreak, aiming us back out to sea. And watch for waves. At this point we would chuck our pinkies almost onto the beach, and then weave back out through the waves. Hitting more than just a few.

On this particular day, we were hooked up whist still battling the surf zone!

We tagged 38 fish that day. We never kept one.

At the end of the session, I jumped in with goggles, to see what was going on. It was wall-to-wall garrick. Top-to-bottom. I have never seen anything like it again.

Since that fine day, my Dad has tagged hundreds more fish on his boats Niteshift (there have been four). Nothing like that garrick congregation ever again. But it became part of our operation, to care for, and release healthy, any fish that we could. With a tag in it.

Tagging then really took off. And ORIs initiative way back then, has developed into a beautifully successful project. We even tagged the first couta ever here in South Africa. That was caught by Louis Posthumous and tagged by me. On Protea Reef. It was the very first ever re-caught couta too. Four years later! Off St. Lucia.

You can catch up with ORIs tagging news for 2018 right here…

https://www.saambr.org.za/download/tagging_news_parent/tagging_news/Tagging-News-31-2018-small.pdf

And so it has come to be again, that we are now full-time tagging fish, on all of our fishing ‘trips and travel‘ offerings.

We even have begun a program following the NZ’s, to spear tag fish too. Most billfish that are tagged after a long fight, immediately leave the area. Spear tagged fish don’t even swim away after being plugged. They just carry on normal behaviour, which is what we need.

Please pop on over to our Trips and Travel section, where under Fishing Experiences, you can research our many options. Or just click here.

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Plastic Shredding Philosophy for ShredderONE

Dealing with plastic pollution one item at a time with a plastic shredder machine.

There are very many ways, and many different people, already deployed in recycling plastic. It is a huge industry nowadays.

But it’s far from enough to solve the problem of plastic in the environment.

Recent flooding near here in Mozambique will have dragged hundred if not thousands of tonnes of plastic with it into the ocean. Where it slowly decays, absorbs toxins that are in the ocean, and is then eaten by sea life.

This next recent incident report shows exactly how big the problem is. A baby turtle was recently found and rescued but died a few days later from ingesting plastic. Tiny pieces. Some fishing line. Scraps that must have looked like food to his little eyes.

That is but one tragedy of this nature. Whales. Seabirds. Fish. Are all eating plastic right now. The smaller it gets, as it decays, the more likely sealife will eat and ingest it. And when the small sealife get eaten by big sealife, they too get the plastic.

Starting at the source

This is where we can start making a difference in our daily lives. Starting at the source. The kitchen. Your vehicle. Boat. Factory. We can separate and clean the plastic we use. As in. Finish a milk bottle. Rinse the remaining milk out with water. Remove the HDPE lid and retainer. And…

SHRED!

Based on Dave Hakkens’ blueprints (from the Netherlands), and made by NU-Style Steel in Johannesburg, the ShredderONE machine is the first step in your individual or business’ effort to curb more plastic from going into the environment.

Shredding pure forms of each plastic, cleaning it and bagging it, generates revenue. Markets for recycled plastic exist all over.

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However, it is where these markets don’t exist, and where transportation to these markets is cost prohibitive, that the ShredderONE shines. The shredders sheer power can destroy PET bottles. Plastic bags. Polystyrene. Literally any plastic that you can shove into it’s teeth. Once this mix is cleaned in water, it is good to go as…

Aggregate!

This is our philosophy for outlying operations such as hotels and lodges. Or other remote establishments.

Shred the plastic that is lying around, on the beach, in the rubbish dump…wherever you can remove plastic from the environment, and stick it in the ground. How? By putting 10 to 20% shredded plastic into a concrete mix, and making roads, floors and pathways (not pillars or decks).

Some YouTube inspiration for you…

Recycling technology in a hundred years time will easily recycle the plastic/concrete material again if needed. But for now, it has no chance of killing sea life or any other life.

And here are the scientific communities research results and opinions…they have even started calling it “green concrete’!

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-made-concrete-using-plastic-waste-and-it-s-just-as-strong-as-regular-concrete

https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/strength-and-behavior-of-concrete-contains-waste-plastic-2157-7625-1000186.php?aid=74481
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877705814032494

Press

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-plastic-concrete-sustainable-india.html

About “Green Concrete”

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_green_concrete

Green concrete is concrete containing an element of waste material in it’s constituent ingredients.

Summary

This is where we can go with ShredderONE – by taking steps to stop more and more plastic from going into the oceans.

And removing whatever plastic we can get our hands on.

The full product description for ShredderONE is available here.

If you are interested in plastic recycling like this, please feel free to get in touch with Sean on +27 79 326 9671 or email umzimkulu@gmail.com and let’s work something out together.

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Cyclone Idai relief is rolling in

Cyclone Idai relief is rolling in.

These images, from Triton Express in Vilankulos, shows where all the aid money and donations are going.

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Triton Express are transporting (with others), the goods northwards. Their depot is the base where the Vilankulos Community Spirit Group volunteers gather to process the supplies into family-sized parcels. Then it is handed over to The Gift of the Givers, and other more impromptu organisations, for distribution, in Beira and affected surrounds.

The goods are coming from all over the place. Much of this shipment was sourced and paid for by the very same Vilankulos community group.

The people of Maputo are doing much the same thing. It’s happening in Tofo too. And many other places including South Africa and abroad.

On an even lighter note… Beira central and some areas, had power last evening, and into today. This is a big step towards coping with the current medical and humanitarian emergency going on there right now. Landlines are also working ok. As is Mcel. The others should kick in forthwith.

And although the crisis is far from over…a rainbow over Beira this morning, might give many the hope they need.

Ok, so here are those banking details once again, for the volunteer organisations on the ground…

Gift of the Givers – (Gift of the Givers, Standard Bank, Account No. 052278611, Branch Code 057525, ref: Floods)
Wings like Eagles – a charity aviation association with it’s own planes and choppers ( you can donate at http://wingslikeeagles.net)

Although the worldly community has started promising money (imagine the buearocracy), for right now, every bit is going to help.

by https://thesardine.co.za