Starting in October 1996, messages placed into sealed bottles were launched overboard near the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i. The bottles drifted in the ocean currents and were discovered across the Pacific Ocean. The most recently discovered bottle was reported in April 2010.
Floating items don't move in a straight line, but follow the major ocean currents.
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