00:00I was fortunate enough to grow up in Byron Bay and just being on the coast and being around the
00:11water I guess is kind of shaped who I am today. I honestly just love being in the water under the
00:21water like choppy days are the best when the sun's out because then you got the water coming through
00:26and it actually refracts the light and it just throws it around into light beams and
00:30it's literally just another world.
00:36I started as a general labourer at a boat building company and then I got invitations to go overseas
00:44and build boats and like my first overseas gig was with an America's Cup yacht racing team with
00:50one of the biggest fashion brands in the world. I had like a pretty cushy job you know I was traveling
00:56the world and living the life we would take a surfboard you're in another country but only
01:01then I guess I really understood how good we have it in Australia in terms of the respect for the ocean.
01:09You know we got sticky butts and stuff on the ground but it's not like Indonesia or Brazil
01:13or China where I realized how common it is to see plastic pollution.
01:17The light bulb moment came when I met my mate Andrew Turton. He's like Peter I've got this idea
01:28it's a garbage bin. We put it in the water and it filters all this stuff and he's like I built it
01:34I just don't know what to do with it. I was like holy that's amazing. I'd never done anything else except for myself.
01:43There was never purpose in my life but at that moment it was like I can commercialize it and
01:48make it better and more efficient and use my creative stuff the engineering I can stay on the
01:53water I don't have to wear shoes if I don't want to and I can build a business that could help other
01:59people and marine life and if it's wrong at least I've known I've had a go and if I didn't have a go
02:06I'll always be wondering what could have happened.
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