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Raft Made of Plastic Bottles Crosses Pacific

Marcus Eriksen arrived in Honolulu on Aug. 27, 2008, after he and friend Joel Paschal completed a three-month voyage from Long Beach, Ca. to Honolulu in a raft made of 15,000 plastic bottles and a Cessna 310 fuselage. (AP PHOTO/ BRITT YAP)

HONOLULU - Tanned, dirty and hungry, two men who spent three months crossing the Pacific on a raft made of plastic bottles to raise awareness of ocean debris finally stepped onto dry land.

"We made it," hollered Marcus Eriksen to a crowd of about two dozen gathered at Ala Wai Harbor on Wednesday. "Where's the food?"

Friends greeted Eriksen and fellow eco-mariner Joel Paschal with lei, fresh food and beer to celebrate the end of their nearly 4,200-kilometre voyage on what they call the JUNK raft.

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