🇨🇴 Colombia Pacific — Bahía Solano • Nuí • Gorgona Island
🇪🇨 Ecuador — Machalilla NP • Puerto López • Humpback Corridor
🇵🇪 Peru — Paracas NP • Ballestas Islands • Sea Lions
🇨🇱 Chile — Pacific Coastline • La Portada • Atacama Coast
🇨🇷 Costa Rica Pacific — Osa Peninsula • Corcovado • Gulf of Nicoya
🇲🇽 Mexico — Sea of Cortez • Baja California Sur • La Paz
🇲🇽 Baja California — Sea Lions • Pacific Swell • Offshore Islands
When Rim Run Caribe™ completes its first full circuit, the GROAN™ database will hold a baseline reef health record across 11 Caribbean countries. When Rim Run Pac™ adds its Pacific layer, something more significant becomes possible: genuine cross-ocean comparison under the same methodology, the same operator, the same platform.
No institution currently holds that dataset. Not because it isn't valuable — because it has never been operationally feasible to collect. A 17-foot catamaran with 24 inches of draft, powered by wind and solar, operated by a single USCG-licensed master captain with nuclear submarine training, running both circuits back to back — is precisely the platform that makes it feasible.
One of the most biodiverse marine environments on the planet. Dramatically different thermal profile from the Caribbean. Northern Pacific terminus for the circuit.
Cold Humboldt and warm Panama Current convergence along the mainland coast. Machalilla NP — Ecuador's premier marine protected area. Species assemblages found nowhere else on the coastal Pacific.
One of the most productive ocean systems on earth. Cold-water coral analogs off Peru. Entirely different chemistry profile from anything collected in the Caribbean.
Costa Rica's Pacific jewel — Corcovado National Park borders one of the most biodiverse coastal zones on earth. Pacific jungle meets reef in a system almost completely distinct from the Caribbean side.
Blue Rim 5™ • Catamaran Dan • Nevado Raiders™