This
is the biggest research opportunity of your career. A message in a bottle,
dated back to the years of exploration, has been found off the coast of New
Smyrna Beach, Florida. Click here
to read the message that was found! As a team of experts, it is your job
to decode the clues given in the message in the bottle and decide which island
the shipwreck occurred. The Mariners' Museum in Virginia has narrowed
it down to a series of possible islands, Aruba, Ascension, Galapagos, Prince
Edward, and Shetland, but they need your expertise of botany, geography, meteorology,
and zoology to pinpoint the exact location that the mysterious explorer may
have been shipwrecked. Finding the site of this shipwreck may uncover
additional historical information of early exploration, ancient ships, and the
history of navigation.
If you encounter stormy seas,
don't give up - blue skies are ahead!