Inspired by Professor Tim Flannery, one of Australia's leading writers on climate change, Daniel Hooft, founder of Kelp Blue and ex-Shell offshore engineer, rose to the challenge to find a way of growing kelp forests off-shore, at scale. By placing kelp forest offshore Kelp Blue can scale up the size of the forests as it is not competing with near shore activities. The forests grow off a floating platform made of a series of arrays and placed at 20-40m below sea surface. Kelp is one of the fastest organisms on the planet and through photosynthesis captures vast amounts of CO2, re-oxygenates and de-acidifies marine waters. Kelp forests are ecosystem engineers, they provide shelter and habitat to hundreds of marine species. But in order for them to have a meaningful impact on the oceans there needs to be scalability. At Kelp Blue we are aiming to become a public blueprint for others to follow.