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01-18-2017, 06:20 PM
'Message in a bottle' found 9,000 miles away with a tech twist
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Finding a message in a bottle is every romantic's dream and it recently happened IRL for one woman on a Scottish island.*
Rhoda Meek, who lives in Tiree in the inner Hebrides, was alerted by a friend that one of those special messages had came ashore.*
SEE ALSO: These vibrating smart jeans double as a GPS system (http://mashable.com/2017/01/13/vibrating-smart-jeans-gps/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
She went to investigate and discovered it was in fact a GPS-tracked scientific experiment that travelled all the way from Iceland.*
The story behind this "message in a bottle" *
Two GPS tracker capsules were dropped from a helicopter into the sea as part of a project with Iceland's national broadcaster and the engineering company Verkis.*
The aim was to show children that rubbish dumped in the sea does **t disappear. It comes ashore and becomes a problem for the environment and people living on coastlines. *
The bottles can be tracked online (http://www.verkis.com/about-us/news/message-in-bottle-traveling-for-a-whole-year).*
The second device is still floating off the Western Isles.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/18/message-in-a-bottle-gps-scotland/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Gps Tracking (http://mashable.com/category/gps-tracking/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Scotland (http://mashable.com/category/scotland/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Iceland (http://mashable.com/category/iceland/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Environment (http://mashable.com/category/environment/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Uk (http://mashable.com/category/uk/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/Vkodj3WTQ3o
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Finding a message in a bottle is every romantic's dream and it recently happened IRL for one woman on a Scottish island.*
Rhoda Meek, who lives in Tiree in the inner Hebrides, was alerted by a friend that one of those special messages had came ashore.*
SEE ALSO: These vibrating smart jeans double as a GPS system (http://mashable.com/2017/01/13/vibrating-smart-jeans-gps/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
She went to investigate and discovered it was in fact a GPS-tracked scientific experiment that travelled all the way from Iceland.*
The story behind this "message in a bottle" *
Two GPS tracker capsules were dropped from a helicopter into the sea as part of a project with Iceland's national broadcaster and the engineering company Verkis.*
The aim was to show children that rubbish dumped in the sea does **t disappear. It comes ashore and becomes a problem for the environment and people living on coastlines. *
The bottles can be tracked online (http://www.verkis.com/about-us/news/message-in-bottle-traveling-for-a-whole-year).*
The second device is still floating off the Western Isles.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/18/message-in-a-bottle-gps-scotland/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Gps Tracking (http://mashable.com/category/gps-tracking/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Scotland (http://mashable.com/category/scotland/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Iceland (http://mashable.com/category/iceland/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Environment (http://mashable.com/category/environment/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Uk (http://mashable.com/category/uk/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/Vkodj3WTQ3o