'Message in a bottle' found 9,000 miles away with a tech twist

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'Message in a bottle' found 9,000 miles away with a tech twist

'Message in a bottle' found 9,000 miles away with a tech twist

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.*

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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.*
  
  
• The second device is still floating off the Western Isles.* Read more...
  
  

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