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ASSOCIATED PRESS — 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 leis, fresh food and beer to celebrate the end of their 2,600-mile voyage on what they call the JUNK raft.
The pair left Long Beach, California, on June 1. Their 30-foot vessel had a deck of salvaged sailboat masts, six pontoons filled with 15,000 plastic bottles and a cabin made from the fuselage of a Cessna airplane.
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