Almost 500 bottles are thrown overboard daily from British ships into to 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. Meterologists hope, by a study of the information thus received, to add to their knowledge of ocean current and prevailing winds.
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Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3314, 25 June 1931, Page 6
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