Students’ message in a bottle travels nearly 3,000 miles to the Azores

Students’ message in bottle ends up in the Azores

CASTINE, Maine — Three Maine students who launched a message in a bottle in 2008 hoped it would make it all the way to Europe. It didn’t make it to the mainland, but it made it as far as the Azores, a Portuguese archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.

The Bangor Daily News reported seventh-grader Dustin Colson and sixth-graders Liam Griffith and Hannah Flood had all but forgotten about the bottle until it was discovered this summer. Flood’s dad and her uncle agreed to drop bottles into the water off the Bahamas in March 2008 while setting weather buoys.

Cheryl McFadden at the Adams School in Castine said the idea was to see if the Gulf Stream would take the bottles to Europe. The bottle traveled about 3,000 miles.

Information from: Bangor Daily News, www.bangornews.com