Small Boat Launched by American Students Reaches Norway
2022-02-16
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1Students in the northeastern U.S. state of New Hampshire sent a small boat into the Atlantic Ocean in October 2020.
2It was a school experiment to see where the ocean currents would take the 1.8-meter long boat which was equipped with a satellite positioning system, or GPS.
3The boat was found 462 days later on a small Norwegian island.
4The boat was called the Rye Riptides, named for Rye Junior High.
5It was covered with student artwork and contained autumn leaves, pictures and coins honoring different U.S. states.
6A Norwegian student found the boat on February 1 on the island of Smola.
7It is off the nation's northwestern coast.
8The trip covered more than 13,300 kilometers.
9The boat lost some of its parts and it was covered in barnacles.
10The student who found the boat took it to his school.
11The American students are planning a call with the Norwegian students soon.
12The students worried several times that their boat had gone missing.
13It stopped communicating with the satellite.
14However, the boat started showing where it was again last summer when it was near Ireland.
15On January 30, it seemed to have reached land.
16One of the American students who launched the boat, Molly Flynn, said she was "surprised the boat actually made it somewhere."
17Flynn said she was worried the boat would get lost in the middle of the ocean.
18She called it "cool and surprising" that it was found.
19The students continued to follow the boat even when the teacher who started the project with them retired.
20Cassie Stymiest runs an educational program based in Maine that started working with the American students on the project in 2018.
21She said: "When you're sending it out, you have no idea where it's going to end up, how it's going to get there, if it ends up (anywhere) at all."
22Stymiest said the students "put their hopes and dreams and wishes into it, and I tend to think sometimes that helps."
23I'm Dan Friedell.
1Students in the northeastern U.S. state of New Hampshire sent a small boat into the Atlantic Ocean in October 2020. It was a school experiment to see where the ocean currents would take the 1.8-meter long boat which was equipped with a satellite positioning system, or GPS. 2The boat was found 462 days later on a small Norwegian island. 3The boat was called the Rye Riptides, named for Rye Junior High. It was covered with student artwork and contained autumn leaves, pictures and coins honoring different U.S. states. 4A Norwegian student found the boat on February 1 on the island of Smola. It is off the nation's northwestern coast. 5The trip covered more than 13,300 kilometers. The boat lost some of its parts and it was covered in barnacles. The student who found the boat took it to his school. The American students are planning a call with the Norwegian students soon. 6The students worried several times that their boat had gone missing. It stopped communicating with the satellite. However, the boat started showing where it was again last summer when it was near Ireland. On January 30, it seemed to have reached land. 7One of the American students who launched the boat, Molly Flynn, said she was "surprised the boat actually made it somewhere." Flynn said she was worried the boat would get lost in the middle of the ocean. She called it "cool and surprising" that it was found. 8The students continued to follow the boat even when the teacher who started the project with them retired. 9Cassie Stymiest runs an educational program based in Maine that started working with the American students on the project in 2018. She said: "When you're sending it out, you have no idea where it's going to end up, how it's going to get there, if it ends up (anywhere) at all." 10Stymiest said the students "put their hopes and dreams and wishes into it, and I tend to think sometimes that helps." 11I'm Dan Friedell. 12Dan Friedell adapted this story for Learning English based a report by the Associated Press. 13Have you heard of a similar project? Did the boat make it? Write to us in the Comments Section and visit our Facebook page. 14Words in This Story 15coin - n. a piece of money made from metal 16barnacle - n. a kind of small shellfish that attaches itself to rocks and the bottoms of boats 17cool - adj. appealing in a way approved of mainly by young people 18tend -v. used to describe what often happens or what someone often does or is likely to do