The British will bring together a young team, mixed and with a strong commitment to sustainability

Dee Caffari will lead the 'Turn the tide on Plastic', a young mixed team that promotes the firm commitment to the sustainability of the Volvo Ocean Race 2017- 18. The campaign, supported by the Mirpuri Foundation and the Ocean Family Foundation, focuses on ocean health.

The sixth team confirmed for the next edition of the race will amplify the environmental campaign of the United Nations that has as its motto 'Clean Seas: Turn the Tide on Plastic' ['Clean Seas: Change the Trend with Plastic'] during the eight months of the race, which will travel 45,000 nautical miles around the world through 12 cities that host the six continents.

Caffari's ambition is to build an international and mixed team, with five women and so many men on the crew, and with a majority of crew members not exceeding 30 years of age. As part of this approach to sustainability, messages about diversity in age and gender are basic issues that, in terms of sports, may prevent it from being one of the great favorites on paper, but they could surprise the water.

"I am delighted to have the opportunity to sail for a cause for which I feel a huge passion"said Caffari, whose British company will also manage the project. "The Volvo Ocean Race is the greatest challenge for teams in the sport world and, with the ambition to compete with a young international and mixed crew, we want to achieve a great impact both inside and outside the water". Caffari is an experienced round-trip that already competed in the SCA in 2014- 15. In 2006, he set a historical record, becoming the first woman to sail in a single and no-stop-to-the-west (the opposite path) around the world.

In 2009 he made the Vendée Globe and set a new record to become the first woman to turn the world alone and without scales in both directions."Seeing the amount of plastic in the ocean is tearing. We are abusing our planet, and this campaign is to push people to do something proactively."Caffari's over.

The team is partly sponsored by The Mirpuri Foundation and Ocean Family Foundation (OFF), which join a growing number of sponsors who are supporting the Volvo Ocean Race campaign for sustainability and ocean health. The Mirpuri Foundation is a non-profit organization created by businessman and philanthropist Paulo Mirpuri with the aim of making the world a better place for future generations.