Check out this link below. You may have heard of this. This guy (heir to some fortune or other) built a sailboat out of plastic bottles and is traveling to raise awareness about plastic in the oceans. I wonder if Dad (Tom) might try to be a crew member??
The voyage is being recorded for a documentary. There is a video highlighting the birth of the filmmaker's son--which he views via Skype from the boat in the middle of the ocean. Technology!
http://myplastiki.com/