Tuesday 17 April 2018

We Have All Heard Of Messages In A Bottle,

travelling thousands of miles,



 but how about a child's toy boat?  well that was what two Scottish brothers, Ollie Ferguson (8) and his brother Harry (5) decided to do, they wanted their toy ship to tackle the high seas, they launched their Playmobil pirate ship from Peterhead, in Scotland, last May, and it has been sailing the world’s seas and oceans ever since,

their toy ship had a counterweight added, to help it stay afloat, and its hull was filled with polystyrene to improve its buoyancy, but despite these modifications, no one expected it to still be sailing almost a year after being launched from Peterhead, it is currently passing by Guyana, in South America!


“The boys love it,” their father, MacNeill Ferguson, said, “When they come home from school they ask if there is there any news about the ship.” it has been quite a journey for the toy pirate ship, but last week, it seemed to have come to an end, on “The Days Are Just Packed” Facebook page the Fergusons announced that the Adventure had not been transmitting its location twice a day, as it usually did, it had missed several pings, and everyone feared that its Atlantic voyage may have finally come to an end, however, yesterday, just when it looked like the voyage was over, the Adventure starting transmitting off the coast of South America, You can see the Adventure’s position here, it is amazing that the technology we have today can track a small toy boat in the middle of an ocean.


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