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Ken Block Jakobsen:
Ken came up with the founding idea for PWC together with girlfriend Anne Sofie Just Jørgensen. He is also the owner of sailing yacht Orbit, on which he has sailed in the Pacific for many years. [...]Financially, he runs Orbit independantly of PWC, but has volunteered Orbit as the flagship of Pacific We Care. Ken has a background in the military and as a youth teacher in sports, sailing and english, and is currently training in Outdoor Education in Theory and Practice. He is also a PADI dive instructor.
(e-mail: kbjakobsen1971@hotmail.com)
Anne Sofie Just Jørgensen:
Anne Sofie has spent 9 months sailing in the Pacific in 2010-2011, visiting islands in Micronesia, Palau and Papua New Guinea. She was immediately fascinated with the underwater world, and soon trained to become a PADI divemaster. The life on a sailing boat had her hooked, and with Ken, she will be a permanent part of the crew on Orbit from July 2012 to December 2014.
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Orbit has been volunteered to be the flagship of Pacific We Care. Financially, Orbit is being run completely independant of Pacific We Care. It is the first of – hopefully – many more private sailboats to come that will assist in the work of Pacific We Care. Not only will these boats provide [...]
the logistics of transport to the many isolated islands we work with, they will be part of a movement of awareness and responsible tourism.
Orbit has already sailed in the Pacific in 2008-2011, visiting many of the islands that will be the focus of Pacific We Care. From July 2012, Orbit sets off from Darwin, Australia, and will hit the Pacific in December after a trip through Indonesia. From here, it will sail through Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati and French Polynesia untill December 2014, setting up and developing our projects and cementing parnerships with local authorities and island communities.
The captain of Orbit is Ken Block Jakobsen, 40, who is also co-founder of Pacific We Care. He hopes that there are many like-minded sailors in the Pacific with a wish to give something back to the islands they visit, and that they will be able to do so through the organisation of Pacific We Care.
Boat specifications:
Orbit is a 43 foot steel hull boat (1985, Øland) that can fit a maximum of 9 crew members. It has a dive compressor and dive equipment on board.
Read more about Pacific We Care at www.pacificwecare.com
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