Factoid/2011/05/03
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Golden Gate Bridge to Vancouver Island in 40 Years
- "Our seabed drifter had been dropped off near the Golden Gate Bridge 40 years ago as part of a study on bottom currents. It took a combination of currents from 1970 until 2010 to get the disk (now minus its weighted tail) from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Clayoquot Sound area. It appears to be one of the last stragglers from a total of nearly 8,000 near-bottom drifters that were released over a year as part of a study of water circulation in the San Francisco Bay area." - excerpt from USGS newsletter.
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