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Shadow
08-02-2011, 09:19 PM
Kind of neat seeing how far these messages travel...and how long it takes to be found. I remember doing something similar in grade school. Attaching notes to balloon's and letting them go. Don't know if anyone ever found them though.




One year ago, off the coast of Oregon, a ten-year-old boy tossed a message in a bottle into the Pacific Ocean. Weeks ago, a 9-year-old girl in Hawaii found it. According to a popular article from the AP (http://news.yahoo.com/hawaii-girl-finds-message-bottle-oregon-235549058.html), Thomas Craig never expected his bottle to arrive safely in anyone's hands. He told West Hawaii Today (http://www.westhawaiitoday.com/sections/news/local-news/message-bottle.html) newspaper, "I couldn't believe someone had found it. I was shocked. When I threw it overboard, it hit the top of my grandpa's boat so I thought it broke and sank. The chances of someone finding it seemed like a once-in-a-million type thing."
His seafaring send-and-receive beat the odds when Trinity Ballesteros of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, saw the bottle washed up on the beach. The note inside read: "Dear finder of my message, my name is Thomas and I live in Oregon. I'm ten years old and this week I'm salmon fishing deep in the ocean. I would like to hear from you."
Trinity responded (via email) to Thomas, who had included his mom's email address. Since then, the two plan to become pen pals (of the digital variety).
But that isn't the only message in a bottle making waves on the Web. Near Florida, a man found another missive that had been floating in glass for 50 years. A hotel owner had put the message out to sea with a note that said anyone who returns the bottle to the hotel will get a $150 reward.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/found-messages-bottles-183933342.html

chloe
08-02-2011, 10:26 PM
I have never done that before but it would be neat to find one.

fj1200
08-03-2011, 12:42 PM
Anyone remember Paddle to the Sea? Made before I was born but I found it at the library and watched it with my kids. Ah, memories.

Shadow
08-05-2011, 10:05 PM
Anyone remember Paddle to the Sea? Made before I was born but I found it at the library and watched it with my kids. Ah, memories.

It's a book,right? About a wooden indian in a canoe that a little boy sets adrift on the ocean?

Which also makes me think of another story I read recently...about ducks that got dumped into the sea by accident,but are now used to measure currents.

What can 28,000 rubber duckies lost at sea teach us about our oceans?
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/what-can-28000-rubber-duckies-lost-at-sea-teach-us-about-

fj1200
08-06-2011, 06:24 AM
It's a book,right? About a wooden indian in a canoe that a little boy sets adrift on the ocean?

I don't know about it as a book but the movie starts with "paddle" being carved and then set on the snow on top of a hill. When the snow melted he slid down the hill to a creek to a river to Lake Superior through the Great Lakes and then to the ocean.