How do you make ocean currents interesting?  Simple. Get in one. The Message in a Bottle was  lowered into the Atlantic Ocean on 21st February.  Amazingly it arrived in Brazil five weeks later having travelled about 1,000miles. Find out how it was found here and see photos here.
 
Thousands of pupils from along the east coast of the Atlantic wrote letters, describing their local environments and their concerns for the future of the planet. The letters were put in the  capsule with a satellite tracker.

We are trying to get people to understand how important ocean currents are in distributing heat within the earth’s climatic system. And how they might be affected by climate change and what impacts that will have for countries around the ocean rim. 

Watch the launch of the buoy

Listen to the letters from Educaid

How did we do this?

Well, if truth be told, we actually did very little.  But two very clever people, John and Jamie, did a lot.  To read the story of how it was made click on the picture.

      What did people write?

From the brilliant to the baffling.  How do you get Christian Ronaldo, climate change and the size of your ears  into the same letter?  Click on the picture.

       A powerful message

John McIntyre, who constructed the buoy, wrote such a fantastic letter that we have put it up on our site.  Click on the picture.