Geography Teaching Today

Will Lorimer, Lynn Morris, Captain Louise Angel and Tim Bromfield with the buoy just before its launch from the Safmarine Bayete in the middle of the Atlantic.

Atlantic Rising is creating a network of schools in low lying communities around the edge of the Atlantic. The three directors Lynn Morris, Will Lorimer and Tim Bromfield are currently travelling around the ocean visiting these schools.

At each school they asked the students to write a personal message to the world. These letters were collected and put into a specially designed buoy containing a tracker. The buoy was launched into the middle of the Atlantic from a container ship and students are now able to track the progress of their letter on the website.

Lynn said: "We are hoping teachers will find this a useful resource for teaching students about ocean currents. We are also asking students for questions about currents which we are going to put to an ocean scientist. We will then post the video of this interview on our website."

The Atlantic Rising team is following the one meter contour line, predicted to be the new coastline of the ocean in 100 years, and has already travelled through West Africa. They are now in Brazil heading northwards up the east coast of the Americas to Canada.

You can follow the progress of the project at www.atlanticrising.org.

Tim and Lynn launching the buoy.

Cardinal Newman Catholic School in Hove have included the Atlantic Rising project in a recent BBC News School Report. View this report.