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The Human Factor
Many organizations and individuals already recognize how important ecologically healthy oceans are for economic sustainability. More and more organizations and individuals are recognizing how important the human factor is for ecologically healthy oceans. Regulations, laws and technical solutions for marine environmental problems do exist. However the effectiveness of these instruments rely, in large, on the individuals and companies implementing them in policy, and carrying them out on board. In other words, the effectiveness of the laws, regulations and technical solutions depend on the human factor.
With millions of people working at sea each day, 3.5 million in mercantile shipping alone, the human factor can have a dramatic influence!
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ProSea considers all persons working at sea or with the sea to be marine professionals. These marine professionals, from deckhand to large shipping company CEO and everything in between, are the human factor.
If marine professionals have a basic understanding of oceans, marine ecology, commercial influences on the ocean, other stakeholders, innovative solutions to marine environmental problems, and, the effects of their own behavior on marine ecology and the public, they will be more likely to choose more sustainable behavior. Lumped together, ProSea calls all this information, encouragement, experience and recognition of individual and corporate ability to act, marine awareness.