Message on a bottle: Tsunami drift devices with GPS might wash up on Peninsula beaches -- Port Angeles Port Townsend Sequim Forks Jefferson County Clallam County Olympic Peninsula Daily news

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November 23. 2013 Among the driftwood and debris on North Olympic Peninsula beaches, visitors may find international orange and yellow bottles that aren’t debris at all. Researchers from Tottori University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Marine Debris Program are seeking 150 soda-bottle GPS drift transponders that were dropped into the water off the coast of Japan to study debris drift patterns after the massive March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
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Message on a bottle: Tsunami drift devices with GPS might wash up on Peninsula beaches -- Port Angeles Port Townsend Sequim Forks Jefferson County Clallam County Olympic Peninsula Daily news
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November 23. 2013 Among the driftwood and debris on North Olympic Peninsula beaches, visitors may find international orange and yellow bottles that aren’t debris at all. Researchers from Tottori University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Marine Debris Program are seeking 150 soda-bottle GPS drift transponders that were dropped into the water off the coast of Japan to study debris drift patterns after the massive March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
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