KugluktukSA国际影视传媒檚 David Peter Norberg has recovered a bottle containing a message that was placed in ocean in 2010.
The bottle travelled a vast distance over those nine years and it wound up along the shore of Hopitok Bay, approximately 65 km north of Kugluktuk, where he spotted it on Aug. 11.
Norberg, 23, was driving along the coast collecting driftwood for a fire while on a camping trip when he spotted the bottle, according to Stanley Carpenter, his father.
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The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) started the bottle on its journey as part of its Drift Bottle Project in June 2010. The DFO's office is based in Sidney, B.C., which is at the southern end of Vancouver Island.
SA国际影视传媒淲e use drift bottles to study ocean surface currents. A drift bottle is a very simple piece of scientific equipment, made up of an empty glass bottle with a watertight lid and a note inside it. The note explains how to make contact with the research project,SA国际影视传媒� the DFOSA国际影视传媒檚 website explains. SA国际影视传媒淧roject participants throw these bottles over the side of ocean-going ships and note the SA国际影视传媒榙ropSA国际影视传媒� location of each bottle. When a bottle is found and reported to us, we add the location information to our database for analysis.SA国际影视传媒�
The DFO also invited students to write messages that would be placed in the bottles. Within the glass the Norberg found was a perfectly dry letter SA国际影视传媒� helped preserved by a cork in the bottle SA国际影视传媒� that was written by someone named Laura, age 11 at the time, who lived in Sidney.
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Carpenter said NorbergSA国际影视传媒檚 intention is to try to contact Laura after he returns from his camping trip to let her know that her message has been found all these years later.
