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ADRIFT IN SEA FOR YEARS.

TINS TO TEST CURRENTS.

Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean to-day-seven tin cans are drifting about. They contain messages for the Pacific Stream Navigation Company. The Orita, which has sailed from Livernool, is to add to that number. Her tin cans will be flung overboard somewhere on the route to Bio Janeiro via the Straits of Magellan and Valparaiso. These drift-can messages are to test ocean currents, and are experiments like those undertaken recently by British and Danish scientists in the North Sea.

In each can will be a request that the finder will inform the company of the position and time of recovery. Tin cans with messages complete were put into the Pacific Ocean on December 11th and 13th, 1.020; October 4th, 10th, and 18th, and November 17th and 20th, 1921. None of these have yet been found. Mr Basil Lubbock, writing to “Sea Breezes,” states that Captain Taylor, of the. Timaru, frequently put bottles overboard, and had two picked up in five years. / '. The figurehead of an old windjammer lost east of Falkland Islands took over two years to reach the coast of Western Australia, and there is something reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe’s fiction in the publication this month in the Pacific company’s journal of a poem which is still wandering about somewhere on the ocean.

Sealed up in a bottle was some doggerel verse, including the lines: So if the wild ocean this bottle should send To some troubled skipper who’s at his wits end Tic. escape from his dangeiqor see his wav' through, Let hiVn from the* hot tie his spirits renew. This message was cast overboard on August 29th, 1890, from the sailing ship Golden Horn. It has not yet'come to port—after 22 years!

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2411, 30 March 1922, Page 1

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ADRIFT IN SEA FOR YEARS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2411, 30 March 1922, Page 1

ADRIFT IN SEA FOR YEARS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2411, 30 March 1922, Page 1

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