The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-26
SEA CURRENTS
 BEING TRACED

To learn more of ocean currents and drifts the Biological Survey of out sso drift bottles in the Bay of Fundy. Sixteen of these were pick ed up on the shores of the Gulf of Maine. Each contained O. postcard address of the biological station, the offer of a reward to the finder who wrote the time and place of finding and posted the card. Two sizes of bottles were used-two ounce and eght ounce. to the latter a galvanized
 depth of thres fathons the object Of tho drag being to minimize the di- rect effect of the wind. Of the fifty five bottles with drags three were and three on the Maine coast. Seven of the bottles which reached Cape Cod were found after an elapse of between sewenty-three and eighty days. The direct distance between tho Bay of F'undy and Cape Cod is 800 nautical miles. This gives an average daily drift of about four miles.
 The drift of these bottles indicates the Bay of Fundy through the north western part of the Gulf of Maine striking Cape Cod. On Aug. 29, 1919. drift bottles were set out off the coast of New Brunswick. One
  8, 1920. From the position in which this bottle was found it is believed, says a bulletin of the Weather Bur eau discussing currents and drifts, that it approached the Azores rom the north or northwest. Another bottle, dropped only 8 mile from the first one and at about the same time, was carried to the Cape Cod coast It is presumed that the first bottle approached Cape Cod, but. being fr1rf caught by the Gulf Stream and car ried to the Azores.
 Still third was put out at the same time about six miles northeast of that which went to the Azores. It was picked up on one of the north western islands of the Orkney group on Jan. 21, 1921.
 According to The Toronto Daily into the ocean near Newfoundland in September, 1919, reached Nteuport, Belgium, in August, 1920.
 A striking case of drift cited is that Wolston, which was adrift for two and 8 half years and was observed more than thirty times On Dec. 15, 1esi' she was seen northeast of Cape Hat her way across the Atlantic. After reaching the Azores she circled the Sargosso Sea and returned to the American coast by southern route.
 The following account, pr1neeo III The Washington Times of Aug. 3, 1920, of the drift of one of the life belts of the tll-fated Lusttania fur nishes an interesting case of the ac- tion of ocean surface currents:
 8 "Scaentists are greatly interested In the probable soute. followed by the Lusitaria life-belt recently picked up in the Delaware river off one of the city piers in the centre of Phi1adel- phia, They estimate 1t traveied from 1a,ooo to 15,ooo miles and required more than five years in It's Journey.
 ''The Lusitania was torpedoed or the Irish coast on May [, 1915. Fly figure that the belt went the Irish Sea and around the north of Scotland; down through the North Sea and the English Channel; down the coast of Trance and Spain and Africa, There the current bore it across the Atlantic. Entering the Gulf Stream, 1t was carried north. IL escaped from this current and drift ed to the Delaware capes. Probably the propeller of a steamship caught h up at the capes and brought 1t up inc Delaware When found a1oat 1t was 100 miles up the river from the capes.
 t"The nfe-beft was covered with barnacies When these were scraped off the name of the Lusitania was found and easily decfphered."