Although some are fortunate sufficient to come back throughout a message in a bottle that made a prolonged journey, one man discovered a Maine Division of Transportation laborious hat in Norway—the nation, not the city positioned in Maine.

A Fb submit revealed by the Maine Division of Transportation identified that the laborious hat traveled about 3,300 miles from the division's headquarters earlier than it was picked up by Sigbjørn Eide. The company is just not asking for the laborious hat to be returned after its lengthy trek alongside the Gulf Stream currents, and it considers it a part of a "pleasant worldwide trade."

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NOAA SciJinks defined that the Gulf Stream is a powerful ocean present. Heat water is introduced up from the Gulf of Mexico into the Atlantic Ocean, and it extends up the japanese coast of the US and Canada.

Damian Veilleux, a spokesperson for the Maine Division of Transportation, advised Newsweek that Eide reached out to the company through Fb after he discovered the laborious hat laying in a mattress of seaweed.

Based on an announcement despatched to Newsweek from the Maine Division of Transportation, Eide was strolling by the shore in a fjord one chilly and snowy morning. He initially thought the laborious hat could have belonged to somebody close by however noticed the American flag on it.

The assertion famous that it takes greater than a 12 months for objects to drift the approximate 3,300-mile distance from Maine to Norway alongside the Gulf Stream.

"The ocean is consistently in movement, shifting water from place to position through currents," NOAA SciJinks reported. "The Gulf Stream brings heat water from the Gulf of Mexica all the way in which as much as the Norwegian Sea. As the nice and cozy water is available in, colder, denser water sinks and begins shifting south—finally flowing alongside the underside of the ocean wall the way in which to Antarctica."

"Whereas the MaineDOT can't confirm precisely the place this explicit laborious hat got here from, we're glad that it washed ashore safely," the assertion learn. "The oceans are house to an rising quantity of human-made plastics which endanger ocean life and ecosystems."

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A person got here throughout a tough hat from Maine that washed up onto a Norwegian shore. The hat is assumed to have traveled the three,300-mile journey alongside the Gulf Stream.ayzek/iStock

Veilleux mentioned whereas it's unclear when the laborious hat set out on its lengthy journey, he mentioned dates are printed on the hats when they're manufactured. This hat specifically was made in August 2016.

Workers with the Maine Division of Transportation are anticipated to put on laborious hats each time they're in an lively development web site.

"And, for these Mainer's who insist the laborious hat ended up in Norway after tumbling by a Maine street pothole, we will guarantee you, that is not the case," the assertion learn.

Newsweek reached out to Sigbjørn Eide for remark.