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I am sceptical.. is this possible? I recall an incident some years ago re plastic ducks escaping from a freighter in the Pacific eventually finding their way through the Bering Strait & on to NE, but that took 10 years or so, half in the ice.
I cannot imagine that in 5 months a bottle can float to Australia from the UK?
Pam
quote:Originally posted by PamM:I am sceptical.. is this possible? I cannot imagine that in 5 months a bottle can float to Australia from the UK?Pam
I am sceptical.. is this possible?
This would average out to about 65 miles a day--pretty good time, even for a sailing vessel! It seems suspicious that the bottle was coincidentally found in a boatyard, too!
I think someone or something helped this bottle along on its journey!
Rich
quote:Message in bottle returns to authorOctober 10, 2000A message in a bottle has turned up in New Zealand, forty-four years after it was thrown from a ship into the Indian Ocean.The author of the message left Austria in 1956 to travel the world, and threw five bottles into the sea containing "lonely hearts" messages, which appealed "for a woman from the Pacific".He eventually settled in Wellington -- seventy-kilometres from where his message was found.BBC
A message in a bottle has turned up in New Zealand, forty-four years after it was thrown from a ship into the Indian Ocean.
The author of the message left Austria in 1956 to travel the world, and threw five bottles into the sea containing "lonely hearts" messages, which appealed "for a woman from the Pacific".
He eventually settled in Wellington -- seventy-kilometres from where his message was found.
BBC
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Only another 11 years to wait Bulbousbow.. then it might be found back in Fremantle
quote:Originally posted by PamM: It would not be able to get down west Africa and around the cape. Someone took it in their own yacht I expect, as a joke, and dumped it in the Perth boatyard.Pam
Oh, ye of little faith! Maybe it went via the Suez Canal.
Brian
No one questioned how a bottle could travel so far, so quickly, and conveniently arrive at a boatyard.
"But oceanographer Peter Challenor said it could not have travelled unaided.
"I think it is extremely unlikely," said Mr Challenor, of the National Oceanography Centre, in Southampton.
He said the world's currents would have prevented the bottle getting to Australia.
"It has probably got a lift caught up in a ship and released somehow," said Mr Challenor."
quote:Originally posted by PamM:A BBC news reports today, states that a message in a bottle thown into Morecambe Bay, Lancs [on England's NW coast] last July, has fetched up in a boatyard in Perth, WA, some 5 months later & having travelled 9,000m. Article here.I am sceptical.. is this possible? I recall an incident some years ago re plastic ducks escaping from a freighter in the Pacific eventually finding their way through the Bering Strait & on to NE, but that took 10 years or so, half in the ice.I cannot imagine that in 5 months a bottle can float to Australia from the UK?Pam
Impossible But a nice try....
RCI 20
quote:cruiseshipluver wrote:...most likely human interference...
Spot on! How about ballast water? Could it be possible it was sucked in and spat out?
Pam, I thought what you posted was the whole article (or the main bits), but after reading it this was what interested me:
"It could have got into the bilge but even then most ships have filters."
Maybe this ship didn't have the filters. Mmmh.
[ 01-22-2006: Message edited by: bulbousbow ]
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