From the Mediterranean to the Americas
Proud winners of The Captain Scott Society's 'Spirit of Adventure' Award 2019
Mission accomplished! Replica Phoenician ship, Phoenicia, arrived into the Dominican Republic on 31st December 2019, after 39 days at sea. Having departed Tunisia on 29th September 2019, the success of the Expedition reinforces the notion that the Phoenicians had the capability and skill to sail to the Americas. The Phoenicia is expected to continue to North America very soon.
The expedition aims to prove that the Phoenicians could have reached the Americas 2000 years before Christopher Columbus.
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.
The Phoenicia made it to the Americas and is currently docked in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic!
Carthage - Gibraltar - Cadiz - Essaouira - Canaries - the Americas
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"Very many congratulations to Philip and his crew."
Colonel John Blashford-Snell
