Jan. 01, 1954 - Preparing To Drop Envelopes Into The Sea - Admiralty Take Part...

Jan. 01, 1954 - Preparing To Drop Envelopes Into The Sea - Admiralty Take Part In Oil Pollution Research: As a contribution to the campaign against the pollution of the beaches by oil residue jettisoned by ships - 10,000 plastic envelopes are to be dropped by aircraft of Coastal Command over a radius of approx 500 miles from the Bay of Biscay to a point half way between the Hebrides and Iceland. The envelopes will drift ashore in time - and the finders are asked to complete the enclosed cards stating time and place of finding etc. and send it to the National Institute of Oceanography, nr. Goda ~ ming, Surrey. Each card returned carries an award of 2/6d. or its equivalent in foreign currency. The cards will be numbered and the date and position at which each was dropped will be recorded. It will thus be possible to work out the approximate speeds and directions of the currents - which will give a lead as to the directions taken by oil dropped from ships in various points. Instructions on the cards will be printed in eight different languages, 2,000 are to be dropped in early Spring; Autumn and winter this year - and 4,000 in early Summer. Photo shows Miss Joan Tubb at the Admiralty holding TOP - the plastic envelope and below showing the two sides of the card - which will be contained in each of the envelopes