Stormur Hjaltason reported boat #5453 after finding it on July 9, 2024 in Borgarfjörður Eystri, on the far eastern tip of Iceland. They went to the beach in the afternoon after a beautiful summer day to make a fire in the sand and grill some marshmallows. They were collecting some dry wood when we found the Float Boat. After the grilling they took a dive in the ocean before going back to the summer house.
This was the 17th boat of the 500 that were sent to the North Pole from VilVite, Bergen Science Centre. During 2022 Float Your Boat collaborated with VilVite, a science museum in Bergen, Norway. VilVite cut and branded hundreds of wooden boats and had them decorated in various learning programs. This boat was deployed along side its parent Arctic buoy by Le Commandant Charcot at the North Pole in summer 2022. Since May of 2023, there have now been have been 17 boats found from that deployment.
Boat Number | 5453 |
Date Found | July 7, 2024 |
Place Found | Borgarfjörður Eystri, Iceland G5RP+7RC Bakkagerði 65.540803, -13.812931 |
Found By | Stormur Hjaltason |
Date Deployed | July/August 2022 |
Who Deployed | Le Commandant Charcot |
Deployment Location | North Pole |
Track Taken | North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre |
All photos by Photo by Agnes Þöll Tryggvdóttir
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