Visit
The full BBC Radio Solent GPS Bottle Story
for the latest news and what's happened to the three bottles.
e.g. on Friday 5th August the latest news was:
Here WAS
Willy Wight found wrecked on rocks at Hill Head.
Above links say "WAS" because no recent reports have been heard from the bottles.
When they were reporting,
the GPS tracker in the bottle could be
hidden from the mobile 'phone network on the shore, by waves, but many position updates still
got through. You can see when reports were last received from the time. e.g. "20:00" Chinese time - 7hrs = 13:00BST = 1pm UK time :-)
BBC Radio Solent Summer Splash - see "Bottle Battle" :-)
Here are the experimental maps for the trails of where the bottles have been:
These are not easy to use, because of the +7 Chinese time, but you may be lucky :-) Please remember that
they are still experimental - made by our Chinese friends in Shenzhen :-)
1) Click on a link like Dolly Dorset. 2) click on the left white box and select "today".
3) click on right white box and select "today" - then add 7 hours to the time.
4) click on the [start playback] button.
DO NOT TAKE RISKS TRYING TO FIND HARRY OR DOLLY !
See the above link for details.
Here WAS
Harry Hampshire Not updated but waiting to be found !
Here WAS
Dolly Dorset - before re-launch. Waiting on a beach ?
other useful links ...
The BBC Radio Solent website
is here and you can
listen live here
The full BBC Radio Solent GPS Bottle Story is here - including how the bottles were made.
The full GPS Bottle Story of over 7 years ago - from UK to France and Holland ! :-)
Robin's daft robot boat hobby page - first sea trials to be near Southampton ? :-)
Robin's charity site - the Law demands the NHS pay all Care Home fees.
experimental "history" maps ...
Dolly Dorset history
and
Harry Hampshire history
and
Willy Wight history