The respondents were required to guess the functions of the turbines shown in Fig. 3; 49.2% of the 250 respondents answered correctly while the remaining 50.8% answered wrongly.
It can therefore be said that half of the total respondents could relate the turbines with marine renewable energy.
However, 61.2% of the respondents had never heard of marine renewable energy. This indicates that they have not realised the existence of marine