LAWLESS FAMILYS.O.S ACE PROJECT

2012

Brady Wooden

Found at: 42°S, 73°W

Last Seen: Mexico

Clue 1 Bottle Analysis The sample in the bottle shows traces of salt,

bauxite, graphite, and coal dust. There was also a trace of ilmenite, a titanium ore.

Recovered Text Our CSI laboratory analysis was able to decipher the

washed-away writing on the message enclosed in the bottle. The pressure used when writing the note left some letter indentations that gave us some clues to the sections missing. Here is what we deciphered: “ There are mountains here. The soil seems quite fertile. There are also rivers that flow into the sea.”

Minerals

Bauxite

Graphite

Rock Salt

Clue 2 Bottle analysis There was evidence of several distinct plants (flora)

in the bottle. There was a piece of clove and a fragment of a vanilla plant. There were some bark samples that we identified as coming from the baobab tree. There were also minute pieces of a coffee bean.

Recovered Text “The forest is quite dense, but beautiful. There are

thousands of different orchids growing on the trees.” “It’s very hot and very humid here. The moisture

seems to hang in the air.”

Plants

Baobab Tree

Clover

Clue 3Bottle Analysis

The bottle contained fur we identified as coming from 3 different kinds of lemurs. One is the brown fur lemur, the second is the mongoose lemur, and the last is the aye-aye, an endangered lemur.

Recovered Text

“ There are strange animals here. One comes out only at night, but it has one long finger on each hand. It uses it to poke into rotted wood looking for insects. It uses its long fingers to open up coconuts, too.”

“ At night, we also occasionally see large grayish cats. They’re about 5 feet long including their tails.”

“ we stay out of the rivers here because of the crocodiles.”

Letter Analysis

On the note we found evidence of urine from an Indri Monkey.

AnimalsBrown Fur Lemur

Mongoose Lemur

Aye-Aye Lemur

Clue 4 Recovered Text There was a lot of damage to the bottom of

the note. However, using several techniques we were able to recover the following text.

“ Using a crude sundial we were able to figure out our approximate latitude. It is 18 degrees.” “ Please find us soon! We look up at the Southern Cross each night and hope that it will guide your rescue ships to us.”

Map of where they were last seen, where the bottle was found at, and where they are

They are located at Madagascar