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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