Marine

Tracking across the Atlantic

April 20, 2015 by Marine Scotland Communications 3 Comments | Category Marine Directorate Science, Marine News from other Organisations

Last year, Marine Scotland Science collaborated with Jim Manning at the NOAA North East Fisheries Science Centre, USA to obtain some low cost trackers for ocean drifters that they released.

Using the same tracking technology, an education outreach project in the USA has launched a number of unmanned sailboats, one of which is currently heading towards Scotland. The sailboat is being tracked by hundreds of school children in New Jersey who prepared it for its launch back in November 2014 and the hope is that it will come ashore in a safe, accessible location, where it can be taken to a local school.

Why not check where it is now and see if it’s heading towards you?

Further Information

• Track the sailboat
• The Educational Passages Outreach Programme
• Previous blog article about our ocean drifters
• NOAA North East Fisheries Science Centre

Comments

• Sarah Hughes says:

  28 April 2015 at 9:27 am

  Hi Jim
  I got a call this morning from BBC Radio Orkney – they are happy to try and help find the boat and they would like to speak to the school who sent it.
  Fingers crossed for a good outcome.
  Sarah

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  • Jim Manning says:

    29 April 2015 at 9:35 am

    Thanks so much for your help Sarah. The teacher spoke with the BBC. She and her students are thrilled. We are all learning a bit of geography.

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• Jim Manning says:

  25 April 2015 at 8:43 am

  On the morning of 25 April, it appears that the boat has made landfall on Papa Westray. Does anyone have any connections to this island?

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