Currents
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Bottles To Chart Pacific
r:E currents of the Pacific Oce are now being mapped some 12,000 bottles cast ove board from ships last year. Eai bottle contains a precise notatii of where it was thrown into tl water, and a request that it 1 returned by any finder.
A US research organisation, t!
Scripps Institution of Ocean graphy, believes that as many ] 300 of the 12,000 bottles will ! recovered. Some will be lost ai some will drift onto remote beach where there is little chance I recovery.
One bottle, nut into the sea ju south of the Equator, near the we coast of South America, w returned by a Fijian who found on a beach of the island of Vam Levu. It had travelled more the 2,000 miles in under a year.
When the positions of recover! bottles are oharted, otherwl unobtainable knowledge of tl directions of currents will 1 obtained, the scientists state.