A message in a bottle traveled more than 1,000 miles from a Southwest Florida island to South Padre Island in Texas.

“The bottle was fun to find, but it also highlighted the tragic reality of the ocean’s pollution.” The vast amount of debris that washes up on remote islands is a growing concern for marine biologists ...

Plus they’ll learn about the scientific properties of oil and water ... like this ocean in a bottle experiment. It’ll demonstrate the behavior of water and just might inspire some ocean ...