Dine & Cook

A catamaran made out of 12,500 plastic bottles and recycled waste products completed its journey across the Pacific Ocean Monday to raise awareness of the ocean's fisheries.

The Plastiki left San Francisco in late March with a six-man crew and sailed 11,000 nautical miles across the Pacific on renewable energy to Sydney, Australia.

Organizers of the crossing say the aim of the project was to draw attention to ocean pollution due to plastic debris.

"If you go home tonight and you have a piece of fish it is very likely that the level of toxicity that you may find in carcinogens, PCPs and non-organic pollutants are pollutants that have potentially been transferred by flexi-plastic in our food system," said David de Rothschild, skipper of the Plastiki.