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While looking a little worse for the wear, perhaps, one can only imagine, if the helmet had had actual eyes, what kids of underwater sights it would have seen!

While looking a little worse for the wear, perhaps, one can only imagine, if the helmet had had actual eyes, what kids of underwater sights it would have seen!

While looking a little worse for the wear, perhaps, one can only imagine, if the helmet had had actual eyes, what kids of underwater sights it would have seen!

While looking a little worse for the wear, perhaps, one can only imagine, if the helmet had had actual eyes, what kids of underwater sights it would have seen!

While looking a little worse for the wear, perhaps, one can only imagine, if the helmet had had actual eyes, what kids of underwater sights it would have seen!

A 6-foot boat put together by students at Rye Junior High School in New Hampshire made its way all the way to Norway, connecting students around the world.

Rye Junior High School students miniature boat reached Norway this winter after a 462-day voyage. They were interviewed on NBC national news show

What started as a junior-high class project turned into an expedition across the Atlantic, bridging the gap between ...

When a group of Rye Junior High School students in New Hampshire set sail a five-foot-long boat into the Atlantic in October 2020, they were not sure what to expect. While some were optimistic it would wash ashore in Europe, many believed the tiny vessel, called Rye Riptides, would get destroyed along the way. On February 1, 2022, the skeptics were proved wrong when the partially dismantled boat washed ashore 8,300 miles away on a small island near Dyrnes, Norway.

“It’s just been an adventure. Every day when we would check on (the boat), it was just crazy,” said Rye Junior High School student Jack Facella.