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Radio 4,1 min

PM listeners' sounds: Driftnet

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Listener John Davies from Truro recorded this sound on his amateur radio. He says it is a small tracking transmitter on a very long driftnet in the South Atlantic. South American fishermen use them to find their nets which are left to drift in the open ocean for days.

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