From New Zealand to Antarctica: The long journey of a piece of plastic

Messages in bottles that reappear decades later often make it into the news. In New Zealand, however, a radio producer has now had an access card for his workplace returned to him 21 years after it was stolen. It was found on the seabed in the Antarctic.

NIWA Communications Manager, Sarah Fraser has been hunting down David McCaw to give back his ID card which he lost in 2003. It was found by NIWA diver Rod Budd in Antarctica in 2016. Credit: NIWA / Rebekah Parsons-King