Blusink

It is estimated that 80% of our Global Ocean is unmapped, unexplored, and unobserved. Given the advances in technology over the past decade alone, this statistic (though generalized) feels overwhelming.

The oceans are the greatest “lung” of our planet, as aptly explained on this company’s website, Blusink.

We need them. The oceans produce 70% of the oxygen we breathe and capture 55% of global carbon emissions.

We take advantage of our oceans every second by overfishing, dumping our garbage, and investing in oil conglomerates that could not care less about the vast ecosystems they destroy. Blusink is one of the many companies making breakthroughs to try and repair our oceans and the wildlife that depend on them.

Blusink is on a mission to do two things; capture CO2 and restore the oceans. The dual missions go hand in hand, as evidenced by their breakthrough technology. Their nature-based solution comes in the form of biogenic material discs that are deployed on the seafloor. These discs become homes to a wide variety of marine organisms, with each one creating its own biodiversity hub. The coralline algae that especially love the disc material begin to capture and store carbon dioxide through photosynthesis and calcification into pink rocks known as rhodoliths. These rhodoliths are one of nature’s most powerful carbon sinks.

Because Nature-based Solutions (NbS) mimic the planet’s natural ecosystems to recover from damage, they simultaneously benefit both people and the natural world. Humans don’t have the ability to fix everything that we’ve destroyed, however, we can find sustainable solutions that support what nature can do on its own.

Please follow Blusink for more on what they do, as they progress with their technology to deploy more material disks and begin to repair the ocean floor and pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.