Boat International - February 2016

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Highly commended–Leonardo DiCaprio

American actor

For – belying his screen personae of the doomed steerage passenger inTitanicto

Jordan Belfort (whose 1961 superyachtNadine,originallybuiltforCocoChanel,sank

off Sardinia in 1996) inThe Wolf of Wall Street, both of whom didn’t have much luck

on the water. But the stellar actor and producer is a committed environmentalist and

philanthropist. He has pledged to donate $7 million to ocean conservation projects,

urgingleadersworldwideto“makeoceanviabilityapriority[...]toensurethehealth

oftheoceansthataresovitaltopeople’slivesallaroundtheworld”.Andlastsummer

the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation raised $40 million through a gala evening for the

preservation of the ocean and environment

Highly commended–Helena Bonham Carter

British actress and activist

For–strippingoffandbeingphotographednaked,hugginga27kgbigeyetuna,

especially when you are, as Bonham Carter puts it, “actually very phobic

aboutfish”.Thephotographwaspickedupbytheworld’smediaandwentviral.

In short, it achieved exactly what Blue Marine Foundation, which organised

the shoot to raise awareness for its campaign to create more marine reserves inthe

UK Overseas Territories, set out to do

B

est known for the perfectly crafted, incredibly catchy

andhugelycommercialsongsHappy,Get Lucky(w it h

Daft Punk) and, more controversially,Blurred Lines

(written and produced for Robin Thicke), all of which have

sold several million apiece, the musician is also creative

director of Bionic Yarn.

Thecompany,foundedin2009byTysonToussantandTim

Coombs in New York, produces what it calls “the world ’s first

high-performance eco yarn”. Using fibres spun from plastic

discarded in oceans or collected from shorelines, it creates

“fabrics that are as strong as they are soft” by combining them

with cotton. Its first collection used 10 tonnes of recycled PET

plastic bottles – 700,000 bottles that might otherwise still be

at sea, endangering wildlife and marine habitats – to produce

jeans and other casual apparel in a collaboration with Dutch

fashion brand G-Star R AW. The autumn/winter collection

bore the strapline: “Turning the tide on ocean pollution.”

Williams’ involvement with Bionic Yarn has enabled

the company to partner with several higher-profile brands

tospreadthemessage,anditisnowinpartnershipwith

Timberland,withwhichithaslaunchedalineofbootsmade

entirely from plastics recovered from the sea, as well as Gap

and Cole Haan. “We have a connection with the ocean,” says

Williams. “It yields so much life. We owe it.”

Winner – Personality*

PHARRELL

WILLIAMS

American singer, songwriter, record producer and fashion designer

For – his role as creative director of Bionic Yarn, which uses

fibres recycled from plastics washed up on shorelines

THE OCEAN AWARDS 2016

*Criteria – the person in the public eye who has done most to promote awareness of the oceans crisis

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JUDGE #4 SIR CHARLES DUNSTONE
As a child growing up in Essex, Sir Charles used to go on holiday to the Norfolk coast. “When the tide was out, you went to the beach,” he remembers. “And when the tide was in,
you went sailing.” Perhaps it was inevitable then that, having set up Carphone Warehouse with £6,000 of his savings in 1989, floating it on the London Stock Exchange in 2000,
at £1.7 billion, he would indulge his passion for the water with a succession of boats. Some have been for racing, notably 23 metre Enigma, which won the Rolex Fastnet Race in
2003, and others for cruising. Now chairman of Carphone Warehouse and TalkTalk, Sir Charles has recently restored the 65 metre 1938 classic motor yacht Shemara.
An active ambassador for Blue Marine Foundation, Sir Charles is also chairman of Royal Museums Greenwich (which includes the National Maritime Museum) and
Ben Ainslie Racing. He was knighted in 2012 for services to the telecommunications industry and charity.