Mark Schrader,  a two-time single-handed circumnavigator of the world and the first American to do so via the "Five Capes" of the Southern Ocean, is intimately aware of our fragile ocean environments. A pioneer in promoting awareness of the consequences that dumping of plastics and other waste present to marine life, through lectures and print Mark has carried the message around the world and helped the Center for Environmental Education and other organizations quantify and document the scope of the problem.

The ocean became important to this Nebraska native late in his teenage years, with moves to California and Washington, and his sailing interests have taken him twice around Cape Horn, through the South Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans as well as North Atlantic and Alaskan waters. He believes those of us who love and value the ocean, its health and all it supports have an obligation to be proactive stewards of this precious environment and important resource. Supporting Sailors for the Sea gives each of us that opportunity.