'Message in a bottle' found 9,000 miles away with a tech twist

Finding a message in a bottle is every romantic's dream and it recently happened IRL for one woman on a Scottish island. 

Rhoda Meek, who lives in Tiree in the inner Hebrides, was alerted by a friend that one of those special messages had came ashore. 

She went to investigate and discovered it was in fact a GPS-tracked scientific experiment that travelled all the way from Iceland. 

The story behind this "message in a bottle"  

• Two GPS tracker capsules were dropped from a helicopter into the sea as part of a project with Iceland's national broadcaster and the engineering company Verkis. 

• The aim was to show children that rubbish dumped in the sea does not disappear. It comes ashore and becomes a problem for the environment and people living on coastlines.  

• The bottles can be tracked online. 

• The second device is still floating off the Western Isles.  Read more...