Where will YOUR bottle go?

The Message in a Bottle kit is an amazing, hands-on way for you to learn about oceans and ecology! Written by Susan Hom with one of the world's leading oceanographers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute — the largest private, nonprofit ocean research, engineering, and educational organization — this unique gift set sends young conservationists like you on a virtual adventure.

After you've received your very own Message in a Bottle kit, the fun begins when you register your bottle on this special website. Then you fill out the first entry, including location and date, in the kit's logbook. That log goes into the bottle, and you seal it up and drop it into the nearest river, stream, ocean, or canal. As others find it, they can record their own data in the log and register their information on the website. Every time someone does, the site notifies you, the original bottle-sender, who can plot its progress through the world's waterways — and see how the tides work and just how interconnected we all are through these bodies of water.

In addition to the bottle, the Message in a Bottle kit features a 96-page book, waterproof two-sided travel document with a map on one side and the log book on the other. A marker pen and label that goes inside the bottle bearing the words "Message in a Bottle" in several languages.

$19.95 (Canada $21.95)
Paperback book with bottle, cork, map, waterproof pen, and wax
ISBN: 978-1-60433-001-4
96 pages
4 x 8-1⁄4
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