11 Years Experience Providing & Supporting
Pacific-Designed Sustainable Sea Transportation
OKEANOS MISSION
Empower Pacific Island people to implement traditionally based sustainable sea transportation to ensure independence, cultural revival and ocean stewardship.
OKEANOS ETHOS
Supporting Pacific Islands’ traditional knowledge as solution, adaptation and mitigation to climate change.
OKEANOS ADVOCACY
Promoting ocean and environmental awareness through professional storytelling including feature films Racing Extinction and The Starchasers.
Building a Pan-Pacific Vaka Network
Our Pacific-designed sailing canoes, ‘vakas,’ use green sources of energy – wind and sun – and operate in 11 Pacific countries.
Okeanos-built vakas have collectively sailed more than 500,000 nautical miles of open ocean
serving as passenger- and cargo transport for health-service, education, disaster relief and research.
Working in partnership with Pacific Island governments, Okeanos manages vaka motu operations providing professional training and oversight
while supporting a systematic transition to independent, locally-run, sustainable sea transport infrastructure.
Okeanos Vaka Motu
Vaka = boat, Motu = island
Boat for inter-islands transportation
Okeanos Vaka Moana
Vaka = boat, Moana = ocean
Boat for the ocean – for cultural revival and high seas voyages