Here's The World’s Oldest Message In A Bottle
Maybe something like ‘Hey this is Patrick, got drunk and drew a pen*s on a piece of paper and stuck it in this bottle. LOL!!!’.
Alas this is not that occasion, although it does now hold the record for world’s oldest message in a bottle.
The oldest message in a bottle spent 108 years, 4 months and 18 days at sea.
After being cast into the sea by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (MBA) in November 1906, the message washed up at Amrum Island, in Germany, on April 17, 2015. This year, Guinness World Records recognized it as the oldest message in a bottle ever found…
A German woman discovered the bottle while visiting Amrum, one of Germany’s North Frisian Islands. The postcard inside promised a reward of 1 shilling (a former unit of currency that was equivalent to 12 pence) for filling in some information and returning the postcard. The MBA was determined to send her the proper reward.
The woman in question did eventually receive her shilling, which the MBA bought off eBay and sent her way.
Another rare find was a message in a bottle found not at sea, but under a rock pile in the Canadian Arctic. Left by American glaciologist Paul T. Walker in 1959, the message described his glacial research and was found by other researchers 54 years later.
Walker's message was particularly impactful, as he suffered a stroke during that expedition and died shortly thereafter.
Messages can be adrift (or buried) for decades, but some more modern messages in bottles have been discovered as well. For instance, in 2011, a bottle was found on an Australian beach, 6,000 miles (9,600 kilometers) from its origin, 14 years after being cast into the sea — during a cruise in February 1997, retired Texas Tech professor George Tereshkovich had written out a message, placed it in a bottle with his business card, and tossed it into the ocean.
Whether a decade or a century passes, each message in a bottle has a story to tell.
Source: Livescience.
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