Bottles on the Waters. Almost 500 bottles are thrown overboard daily from British ships into the oceans of the world and allowed to drift where they will. They are not empty, for each contains a set of printed instructions and a record of the point at which it was dropped.. Anyone finding such a bottle is asked to send the record taken from it to the Air Ministry in London, first making a note of where it was picked up. Meteorologists hope, by a study of the information thus received, to add to their knowledge of ocean currents and prevailing winds.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 145, 20 June 1931, Page 17 (Supplement)
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