The dining room is small and grandmotherly, with its fitted beige carpet and wooden dresser filled with ornamental plates and goblets. Much of the decor appears to have changed little over the years Moore first moved here with his family at the age of two. Moore holding a portrait of him with his wife © Liz Kuball “1951 CHARLES” is stamped into the concrete. “I remember going with my dad to collect those,” he says, pointing to some round stones set in its walls. On the back patio, he shows me a small raised pond. The building’s modest, terracotta façade conceals a rabbit warren of rooms and corridors that make up the original house, built in 1939, and the equally large extension that the family added some 15 years later.Ĭhildhood memories are everywhere. But on this sunlit afternoon, the 25-tonne, aluminium-hulled catamaran is moored on a ribbon of calm water barely 100 feet from his childhood home - and where he lives again now, with Samala, his wife of 44 years. On average, he spends 100 days a year at sea captaining a 50-foot research vessel, Alguita.
Solar panels on the roof of Moore’s home © Liz Kuball Moore founded Algalita, a marine research foundation, in 1994. Now 70, his research has won widespread praise, even as some academics scoff at his lack of scholarly credentials. Moore has been on a mission to combat plastic waste ever since. Recalling looking out on one of the remotest places on Earth and seeing man-made waste, he says, “it was an ‘Aha!’ moment”. His findings were shocking: the amount of plastic outweighed the zooplankton (a primary link in the marine food chain) by six to one. Working in isolation from the world’s leading scientific and environmental organisations, he devised an expedition to return to the North Pacific Gyre - a vast and rarely visited oceanic area of high atmospheric pressure - to gauge the extent of the pollution.
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