YM's Jon Amtrup joins SeaKeepers project

Yachting Monthly columnist, environmentalist and high-latitude expert sailor Jon Amtrup has joined a growing number of sailors carrying out marine citizen science projects.

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Jon has signed up his 45ft aluminium-hulled sailing yacht Njord to the International SeaKeepers Society's Discovery Programme.

The first Discovery project Jon will support is ORCA OceanWatchers Citizen Science whale and dolphin monitoring programme, which has a planned sailing schedule as far north as the Lofoten Islands, the Faroe Islands and Norwegian archipelago.

The data collected will help identify hotspots so researchers can drive policy and create protected areas to safeguard animals.