From the Mediterranean to the Americas
Proud winners of The Captain Scott Society's 'Spirit of Adventure' Award 2019
The expedition aims to prove that the Phoenicians could have reached the Americas 2000 years before Christopher Columbus.
In 2008 - 2010 Phoenicia (a custom-built replica of a Phoenician ship) successfully recreated the first circumnavigation of Africa, believed to have been accomplished by Phoenician mariners in circa 600BC.
The Phoenicia is currently on the last exciting leg to the Americas
Carthage - Gibraltar - Cadiz - Essaouira - Canaries - the Americas
Launched by the UN Environment Programme in 2017, the Clean Seas campaign aims to engage governments, the general public and the private sector in the fight against marine plastic pollution. As the Phoenicia sails through the Mediterranean and across the Atlantic, the crew will take samples of sea water for later analysis by Clean Seas.
