The Ocean's Future is in Our Hands
The Clearwater Horizons Project is the result of 15 years of observations and 6 years of work to come up with an effective solution to eradicate a specific category of maritime plastic waste that can be found in our ocean. The problem we want to eradicate is currently unacknowledged.
We're a small but highly motivated and passionate team. Orca Access Services director, Peter Dawson, began his interest in all things oceanic whilst watching Jacques-Yves Cousteau in the 1970s and began scuba-diving himself in 1988. He's spent a great deal of his time since 2010 working offshore in oceans around the world.
This initiative has a unique and innovative 'carrot & stick' incentive-based method of preventing plastic waste from entering The Ocean and creates a connection between the offshore world and the sons, daughters, nephews, nieces, grandsons and granddaughters of any maritime asset's crew members. The Clearwater Horizons Project also helps to raise awareness of the problem of plastic waste in The Ocean, aiming to interest, engage and educate the youth of today, after all they're the ones who will eventually inherit The Ocean.
Plastic Waste is a global problem and our project has been designed and developed to provide a global solution!

CWHP welcomes the participation of companies across the global Wind Power Industry and encourages all their offshore maritime assets and offshore personnel to get involved in The Clearwater Horizons Project.

We encourage every organisation within the Maritime Shipping Industry, all maritime assets and their crews to join The Clearwater Horizons Project.

The entire offshore Oil & Gas Industry and all their maritime assets are invited to join The Clearwater Horizons Project. We welcome all Production Platforms, Jack-Up and Semi-Submersible Drilling Rigs, Floatels, FPSOs, Drillships and their crews.

We’re reaching out to companies operating on Riverside Construction Projects, large or small from bridges to housing developments in our call to embrace CWHP.

We’re reaching out to companies operating across the entire Global Cruise Line Industry and all ferry companies. There is also an invitation to all their maritime assets and their crews to join The Clearwater Horizons Project. We welcome all shapes and sizes of cruise ship and ferry.

We welcome the opportunity to work with businesses and organisations from the Ocean & Riverside Leisure Industry who join The Clearwater Horizons Project. We welcome pubs, restaurants, caravan parks, overwater bungalow & beach resorts, Dive Shops, BSAC/PADI Diving Clubs, Surfing Schools, Sailing & Rowing Clubs and Wildlife Watching Tours.

We welcome the involvement of fishing vessels and companies that operate responsibly and in line with sustainable fishing practices that protect marine ecosystems for future generations and invite them to join CWHP.

Rope Access companies operating offshore are also invited to join The Clearwater Horizons Project and demonstrate environmental leadership within the industry. By adopting CWHP practices, your company can strengthen its reputation, support client sustainability goals and set a new benchmark for responsible offshore operations

The Clearwater Horizons Project (CWHP) proudly invites industrial rope access technicians from every corner of the world to become CWHP Ocean Stewards - a global community of offshore professionals taking real action to protect our planet’s oceans.
Whether you’re core crew or on ad hoc contracts, you can make a tangible difference. CWHP Ocean Stewards are required to actively participate in reducing plastic waste by contributing to our Weekly Weigh-In, carried out every Friday on participating assets.
Each installation’s results are added to the Global League Tables, displayed each Monday on the CWHP website's Global League Tables, allowing teams, assets and companies to track progress and enjoying a little friendly competition whilst driving serious environmental change.
Participation also gives you the opportunity to register your children or young family members to receive CWHP Weekly Creature Feature Cards and Monthly Ocean Creature Toys (UK's KS1) or hand-painted CWHP Sealife Figurines (UK's KS2) for a full year, as detailed below.
This connects offshore families to the offshore world and the CWHP Mission - boosting morale, sparking curiosity and helping to raise a new generation of environmentally aware individuals, because once they know what’s lives in The Ocean, they’ll want to help save it too!

Informing, Engaging and Educating
Our CWHP Maritime Partners who subscribe to The Clearwater Horizons Project are encouraged to enrol the sons, daughters, nieces, nephews, grandsons and granddaughters of their employees also. This provides each enrolled child with weekly and monthly age-specific items for a year including:

Located close to the geographically most central part of the UK, at Dunston Innovation Centre in Chesterfield, this is the Administrative HQ of Orca Access Services, the driving force behind this project.
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