The Task

This is the biggest research opportunity of your career.  A message in a bottle, dated back to the years of exploration, has been found off the coast of New Smyrna Beach, Florida.  Click here to read the message that was found!  As a team of experts, it is your job to decode the clues given in the message in the bottle and decide which island the shipwreck occurred.  The Mariners' Museum in Virginia has narrowed it down to a series of possible islands, Aruba, Ascension, Galapagos, Prince Edward, and Shetland, but they need your expertise of botany, geography, meteorology, and zoology to pinpoint the exact location that the mysterious explorer may have been shipwrecked.  Finding the site of this shipwreck may uncover additional historical information of early exploration, ancient ships, and the history of navigation.

If you encounter stormy seas, don't give up - blue skies are ahead!