Blue Ocean Gear is changing the commercial fishing industry with intelligent, connected Smart Buoys to provide real-time gear tracking for commercial fishing fleets out on the ocean. Without this technology, over 600,000 metric tons of fishing gear is lost to the oceans every year, consuming up to 30% of the world's fishery stocks while causing fleets to lose billions of dollars in revenue and gear replacement costs. Blue Ocean Gear's Smart Buoys are designed with a range of sensors that allow fishers to monitor the status of their gear whether onshore or on the water, receiving alerts of anomalous conditions so they can respond immediately and operate more efficiently. The buoys are also a valuable source of data on ocean conditions, providing insights that benefit ocean industry operations.

Lost fishing nets and lines, plastic bags, cans, face masks, tires and all kinds of man-made pollution can be found on the sea floor. Guardians of the Blue works in symbiosis with Byblos' diving club Xiphias Diving providing divers who come to the club the necessary equipment to pick up marine debris during their dives, and educating them on the impacts of pollution on marine life.

SOA El Salvador is a youth-run organization that enables millennials to become leaders in preserving the health and sustainability of our oceans. Through this grant, they have formalized their hub's structure, grown their membership, and created a leadership team tasked with creating a set of services that can support 20-100 members. This year they offered a beach cleanup campaign and educational activities for members of the public, and created reliable patterns and processes for holding quarterly chapter meetings.

To form new youth initiatives in coastal cities, this project spreads awareness on plastic pollution and marine litter by offering capacity building workshops for budding environmentalists and youth organizations in Egypt. Their main objective is to ban single use plastic in those cities, with a special focus on banning plastic use at the beaches.

The Sea Our Seas Docuseries includes six short documentaries that highlight the oceans, marine resources, and problems and challenges facing effective ocean management in Trinidad and Tobago. The topics addressed include: fisheries, pollution, coral reefs, ghost gear, the Blue Economy, and climate change.

Sciaena aims to promote a moratorium on Deep Seabed Mining in Portugal. They will do this through Coordination with Oceano Livre to increase membership, organize joint actions with anti land-mining moviments in the country, organize a public event, organize meetings with the Minister and the National Director for maritime policy, and update Oceano Livre's internal documents, websites and campaign materials.

SOA Perú developed La Academia to empower more than 40 students to expand academic, citizenship, and leadership skills for ocean conservation and sustainability. During five weekends, 11 experts in different oceanic topics (Maritime Law, Marine Biodiversity, Underwater Photography, Political Participation, Sea Turtle Management, etc.) were able to share their experiences, supplementary materials, and relevant information on the different topics.

River Clean-Up Operation (RECOVER) is a collaborative community service project conducted by SOA Brunei, YSEALI and Save Kampong Ayer to gather solid wastes found along the Brunei River in Kampong Ayer (Water Village). This project aims to provide immediate short-term relief to solid waste discarded in the environment by engaging volunteers and the local Kampong Ayer community through the collective effort of a mass river clean-up. 

Blue School Bali is an informal educational program in Amed, Bali. The free of charge school provides lessons on environmental and ocean awareness to local children ages 7 to 15. They aim to educate 20 students over the term of the grant through classroom education and reef snorkeling excursions.