{"id":4273,"date":"2015-10-26T09:01:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T09:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scotland.gov.uk\/coastal-monitoring\/?p=4273"},"modified":"2018-04-11T11:15:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T10:15:51","slug":"message-in-a-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/2015\/10\/26\/message-in-a-bottle\/","title":{"rendered":"Message in a bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4274\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/10\/Message-in-a-bottle.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4274\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4274 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/10\/Message-in-a-bottle-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"Message in a bottle\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/210;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Message in a bottle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While digging through the archives of footage we have in Marine Scotland, we came across this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pPOAYJxHFvc\">footage of drift bottles<\/a> being thrown in to the sea, to try and help track the current.<\/p>\n<p>While we still sample in the Faroe Shetland channel, technology has moved on, as you&#8217;ll see from our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/2015\/08\/11\/tracking-the-ocean\/\">Tracking the Ocean<\/a> story\u00a0from summer this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More information<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/2015\/07\/31\/a-film-of-the-mrv-scotia-in-the-faroe-shetland-channel\/\">Life on a research vessel \u2013 sampling on the MRV Scotia in the Faroe Shetland Channel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While digging through the archives of footage we have in Marine Scotland, we came across this footage of drift bottles being thrown in to the sea, to try and help track the current. 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