BOTTLE FLOATS 2500 MILES.
! AIR MINISTRY'S EXPERIMENT. After having floated 2500 miles in 434 days at sea, a bottle was recently picked up at North Queensland. It had been dropped overboard on October 7, 1927, by a British vessel while in a most desolate part of the Pacific Ocean, 1000 miles north of the Fiji Islands. In it was a message asking that it be returned to the Meteorological, Office of the British Air Ministry, which is having 494 ships sailing the seven seas drop similar bottles every day in a plan of securing data to be used in tracking sea currents.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3449, 24 November 1932, Page 7
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102BOTTLE FLOATS 2500 MILES. King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3449, 24 November 1932, Page 7
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