Tracking the Pacific Trash Vortex – Update
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Just wanted to give an update on how the Ocean Tracking message bottle project is going.
Because a picture is worth a thousand words, here’s an illustration to show how it will work.
The path of the “message bottle”, as it floats in the ocean over time, will be displayed similar to the picture shown below.
This is the actual tracking of a shark as it swims in the Pacific Ocean over a period of time. The white line shows the path of the shark over a period of days and weeks.
Our bottle concept works in exactly the same way.
This is going to be so cool!
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Wait I just thought of something-Krell are you doing this with ALL your trash or just this single bottle ? Cause the bandwidth to track all the mcdonalds wrappers, cat food tins,coke and pepsi cans and prophylactics may begin overloading the routers carrying the traffic, which in turn may affect internet porn.
Hmmmm….I think that you may have something there, Oso.
Come to think of it, I just paid my yearly subscription to “British Babes in Bathtubs full of Beans” website. Nothing can interfere with that!!
This gets more cool by the minute, my daughter is going on a cruise in November, I live less than an hour from the ocean, is there anything I can do?
Holte, I think I’ll take you up on that. Just so we can keep as much of it in the MMA family so to speak.
I will email you. Thanks.
Brilliant!!!
You should have put a message in the bottle though.
I dunno…some’at like ‘Stop the plastic island!’ or ‘If you see a crab in this bottle save it!’…..or some’at…;-)
How about a MMA Tee shirt?
Krell did you do this to bring attention to the floating trash in the ocean, or just to see if the bottle would go around the world? I am interested to see why you thought of doing this.
I did this as a way to bring attention to this trash island. Necessity is the mofo of invention..
I do have a strange desire to make a radio out of coconuts for my own personal pleasure though. I have already tried to get MH to wear a coconut bra but that idea didn’t fly.
Are you like the professor from Gilligan’s Island and expected MH to be who, Maryanne or Ginger with the coconut girls cover? I have heard this question causes fights so if you don’t want to answer, there is no need to :). Hubby is a Maryanne person or so he told me.
I’m really interested now in watching what this does and passing on the info to others I know would be interested in it. Nerdy science geeks.
Mary Anne of course.
Ginger was a Marylin Monroe wannabe. Besides she would have been too high maintenance.
Probably would have taken my coconut radio with the divorce settlement.
Ginger.
What’s on the message? Have I missed some’at here? Typical!
Good question, 4D.
The whole point besides the geeky coolness of it is that the bottle will start way over on the eastern part of the Northern Pacific current and wind up in what is called a Gyre or “eye” of the nothern and southern oceans currents, just like all plastic that is being dumped in the ocean.
What this Gyre does is concentrate plastic trash to the point that right now there is a plastic “island” in the middle of the Pacific that is larger than the state of Texas. About 47,000 bits of plastic per square mile of ocean.
So to answer the question, there is no message in the bottle. The bottle itself is the message. Draw attention to this horrible mess in the Pacific, and maybe show how it happens. Awareness.
http://been-seen.com/index.php/articles/travel-info/an-ocean-of-rubbish
Oh man!!!! This is seriously cool and I knew about it!! I can’t wait for that integration K.
Mike keep in mind there’s not an actual coaxial cable running from the bottle to your PC.
Oh crap….redesign.
Yes ! This is cool!
That is cool.