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# Setting sail for conservation
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/storm-from-page-1-setting-sail-for-conservation/
- Published: 2005-01-14T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T06:00:40.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Environment, Promenade, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

A Santa Monica ocean conservation group, along with actor Ted Danson, today will christen a catamaran that will embark on an 11,000-nautical-mile, five-month voyage to document the threats facing oceans.

Danson will christen “The Ranger,” a 71-foot catamaran, at 10 a.m. at the Harbor Promenade behind The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Marina Del Rey.

The catamaran is one of the biggest in the world and will travel from California to Central America, Africa and Europe — stopping in key endangered marine zones to document marine wildlife and habitat.

The Ranger is owned by Oceana, an international marine conservation organization that works to protect the ocean from destructive industrial fishing practices and pollution. Store dresses up tsunami effort

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 14, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/011405.pdf?ref=smdp.com)