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603 Explorer GPS-Tracked Miniboat Voyage

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Source: Sea Coast Online

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Completed

Stratham Memorial School fourth-graders assembled and launched an unmanned 1.5-meter miniboat named '603 Explorer' into the Gulf Stream off the Outer Banks in North Carolina. The boat is GPS-tracked and designed to travel across the Atlantic Ocean, allowing students to track its voyage and potentially communicate with students on other continents. The project is part of the Educational Passages pr

Status
Closed
Sector
Seaport, Education
Location
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, United States of America
Updated
22 Jul 2026
Source
Sea Coast Online

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The project “603 Explorer GPS-Tracked Miniboat Voyage” is an infrastructure initiative in the Seaport sector, located in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, United States. Taiyo aggregates data on it from Sea Coast Online.

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completed

Taiyo status

Closed

Taiyo last update

2026-07-22

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Stratham Memorial School fourth-graders assembled and launched an unmanned 1.5-meter miniboat named '603 Explorer' into the Gulf Stream off the Outer Banks in North Carolina. The boat is GPS-tracked and designed to travel across the Atlantic Ocean, allowing students to track its voyage and potentially communicate with students on other continents. The project is part of the Educational Passages program to promote ocean and environmental literacy through hands-on learning.

Original sector

Education

Location

Country

United States of America (USA)

State

North Carolina

City

Kitty Hawk

Source

Source

Sea Coast Online

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Sector

Seaport, Education

Article published date

2026-05-07

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