Age of the "pull tab"

[Robert Sobczak]

This thing was
still half full ...

Cold, too!

See for yourself in Go Hydrology! 

[Swamp Hunter]

Thats an odd shaped one. Maybe a ziptab 62-64 (top pic) or mid 60s pulltab with ring. 

 

 

[Swamp Hunter]

Speaking of odd finds, hiking in the swamp, I once found an old, large balloon, or parachute, badly decomposed on the ground, all twisted in the vegetation. I followed the cord up through the trees and back to the ground, where I found this package. I cut off the corroded and swollen battery pack, according to instructions on the box, and put the electronics in my pocket.  I often find helium balloons but this one was much different.

It turned out to be an RS80 Vaisala Radiosonde NOAA National Weather Service ballon and I mailed it back according to instructions with the self-addressed plastic envelope and told them where I found it. I never heard back from them.

Sorry for the poor pics from 2005. .

[Swamp Hunter]

I did a quick search and I see someone else found one. http://www.darkerview.com/darkview/index.php?/archives/1322-RS80-Ra...

 

 

more reading http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/2762.1

[Robert Sobczak]

We found one of those too, ... and returned it... I never did hear back to what it said (or didn't say).  Presumably it flew on the Trade Winds out of Miami.

[Swamp Hunter]

cool