There’s a pretty good chance you’ve heard the name Boyan Slat before. If you’re interested in ocean-related things, anyway (and if you’re here reading this). Slat was the guy behind the Ocean Cleanup Project, which was a surprisingly simple idea to pick up trash out of the ocean. A simple idea, but with incredibly complex inner-workings. Learn everything you ever wanted to know about it here. In a tribute, Mason Ho, who loves to experiment, surfs a board based off of one of Slat’s vessels called the Interceptor.
The Interceptor (the vessel, that is) is meant to clean the plastic from rivers before it even gets to the ocean. It is 100 percent solar-powered, extracts plastic autonomously, and is capable of operating in the majority of the world’s most polluted rivers. All good things, right?
As homage to the Interceptor, Akila Aipa, the man behind a multitude of really good surfboards, decided to make a surfboard designed after it. It’s not 100 percent solar-powered and it doesn’t extract plastic autonomously, but it sure does look like it goes well, doesn’t it? Of course, it’s hard to tell under the feet of someone like Mason Ho or Sheldon Paishon, because they could, as the saying goes, make surfing a door look good.
