The Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Mass., volunteered to launch theThe students delivered their boat to the Sea Education Association crew, docked in Massachusetts, on Oct. 9, 2020. They took it aboard the, which then traveled to Florida and launched the miniboats into the Gulf Stream on Oct. 25.
reports that Adams left a note on the map asking it to be saved for students when she retired unexpectedly at the end of last school year and found out that custodians had been updating it during summer vacation. But after about 10 months at sea, the GPS began reporting only intermittently during hurricane season of 2021. It sent one ping on Aug. 18 and another on Sept. 30. Students kept checking for status reports, even while they were learning online.
Then, on Jan. 30, the GPS reported once again — this time from a small uninhabited island in Smøla, near Dyrnes, Norway. "It didn't look like an island that would be walked, so we needed to try and make contact with someone in the area to possibly assist in recovering the boat,"The organization posted a notice on its website explaining the educational purpose of the project and asking for help safely recovering the boat if possible. The message also made its way into local news and onto theThat's where the family of a local sixth-grader, Karel Nuncic, heard about the crashed boat.