Message in a bottle

[+genegene]

I found this link while searching for something else and its an interesting read if you have not read it before. I'm sure it was posted on the forums here before but I couldn't find it so I'm dropping it in now/again.

 

Message in a Bottle will take you to a story about the USC&GS dropping bottles in the water to see where they would pop up. They were tracking the Ocean Currents and there speed and learned about them more.

 

This was a feature article in "The American Surveyor" March 2007

 

P.S.

If anyone knows where I can get my hands on one of those bottles (besides looking along the beach) please let me know. I would love to add it to my collection of bottles and it would be a good conversation piece.

[NGS Surveyor]

Here is a link to a photo of my USC&GS bottle: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12262796@N06/5263164113/

I got mine years ago, but I have seen one or two on an on-line auction site .

 

GeorgeL

NGS

[Z15]

Back in the 1980's we surveying along US-2/Lake Michigan shoreline in Mackinaw county for erosion. One of the members of the crew wading out in the water to get the elevation found a bottle with a note inside. The party chief was easily distracted so he managed to get the note out and it was a name he recognized, a fellow surveyor who got his start working for him years earlier. Sometime later he was able to contact him and found out the guy had throw the bottle in in the same general area that we found it only a few weeks before

Edited December 20, 2010 by Z15

[NGS Surveyor]

Just in the last few days, the NGS Director received the card from inside one of these bottles. The bottle had recently been found in Alaska, on the north side of the Aleutian Peninsula. Amazing since it was dropped in the ocean many years ago! (Likely in the 1950s or 1960s.)

 

GeorgeL

NGS