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I constantly nag my friend who goes on cruises to do messages in a bottle. I must send this to her.
Since that holiday, eight years ago, I’ve found more than 80 messages in bottles, mostly on the Turks and Caicos, which oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer calls a “flotsam magnet”. Bottles have been washing up on the islands since at least the 1800s; the Turks and Caicos National Museum features a large collection that belonged to its late founder. ...
BOTTLED MESSAGE SENT OUT TO SEA IS FOUND 5 DECADES LATER
HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) -- A bottled message sent out to sea by a New Hampshire man more than five decades ago has been returned to his daughter.
WMUR-TV (http://bit.ly/2dFgqsy ) reports the message was discovered by Clint Buffington of Utah while he was vacationing in the Turks and Caicos.
Buffington says he found a Coke bottle half-buried in the sand. The note inside the bottle said, "Return to 419 Ocean Blvd. and receive a reward of $150 from Tina, owner of the Beachcomber."
The Beachcomber was a Hampton motel owned by the now-deceased parents of Paula Pierce in 1960.
Pierce's father had written the note as a joke and cast it into the Atlantic Ocean.
Buffington flew to New Hampshire to deliver the message to Pierce. She made good on the promised reward.
Message in a bottle discovered after 36 years
A message placed in a bottle has finally been found after 36 years in the ocean.
On June 10, 1981 in Florida's Fernandina Beach, Douglas Stephens sent a message in a glass bottle requesting just one thing: that the person who finds it contacts him to let him know.
In mid-June this year, Ryan Burchett found himself gifted with that task.
While fishing with his friends and family at Little St. Simon's Island in Southern Georgia, Burchett found the bottle on the shore.
After finding that Stephen's was no longer at the address listed in his message, Burchett went to a local shop, Southeast Adventure Outfitters, for help.
The business used Facebook to help track Stephens down.
Burchett found Stephens in Acworth, Georgia, a city not too far from Atlanta. ...
I'm looking at the area on Bing Maps. That length of coast is heavily indented by little rivers and creeks. Probably the tide swept the bottle into several of these, where it could have been hung up for years until conditions changed to circumstances more favourable to washing it back out to sea!Here's one that didn't get very far - averaging something like 1 - 1.2 miles per year in its progress along the coast.
NOTE: Little St. Simon's Island GA is on the order of 30 miles north of Fernandina Beach FL.
SOURCE: https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/06/23/message-in-a-bottle-discovered-after-36-years/22730661/
References?It didn't backfire. He got 50 offers of a date.
Texas couple find 56-year-old message in a bottle
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said a message in a bottle found on a Texas beach was one of 7,863 released about 56 years ago.
NOAA Fisheries said Candy and Jim Duke were walking along Padre Island National Seashore near their Corpus Christi home when they found the bottle ...
A faded orange note inside the glass said "BREAK BOTTLE," but the couple instead elected to carefully extract the bottle's contents without breaking it.
NOAA said the bottle was one of 7,863 released between February 1962 and December 1963. The agency said the bottles contained postcards and instructions for the finder to mail the cards with the date and location of the discovery in exchange for a 50-cent reward.
"The releases were part of a study to determine the role that water currents play in the movement of young shrimp from offshore spawning grounds to inshore nursery grounds," NOAA said. ...
It was unclear whether NOAA Fisheries gave them their 50-cent reward.
FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2019/0...ichigan-to-Florida-in-24-years/5101563461235/Message in a bottle travels from Michigan to Florida in 24 years
A man relaxing in the water on the Florida coast discovered a message in a bottle that had been thrown into Lake Michigan 24 years earlier.
Gary Henrickson said he was enjoying the gulf coast water in Santa Rosa Beach when he spotted a bottle bobbing in the water nearby.
Henrickson uncorked the mystery bottle and discovered it contained a message from a man who had tossed it into Lake Michigan in 1995
"The note says: Hello, June 16, 1995, Frankfurt, Michigan. I've tossed this bottle into the water to bring joy to anyone who finds it. This whiskey bottle was full a few short hours earlier. If you find this call me, and I'll buy you a drink," Henrickson told WTHR-TV.
Henrickson said he attempted to send a text message to the number on the note, and to his surprise, it will still in service and still belonged to the author of the note.
"He's 49 year's old now," Henrickson said. "It was a whole different time in his life, he said. He threw it in Lake Michigan, and we kind of talked about how it could've gotten down here. It's just an amazing, long, long way it had to go." ...
Message in a bottle travels 2,833 miles across the ocean in 21 years
A Scottish family vacationing on one of the country's islands found a message in the bottle launched from Maine about 21 years earlier.
Mike Bolam said he and his family were on the Scottish island of North Uist when they noticed a plastic bottle on the beach.
"Hello, my name is Matt Rhoades. Please write back," the message inside read.
Bolam was able to find Rhoades on Twitter. The sender, now 34, said he was 13 and living in New Hampshire when he threw the bottle into the ocean in Wells, Maine, in 1998.
The bottle traveled about 2,833 miles across the ocean. ...
The British author of a message in a bottle that recently washed up on the South Australian coast after more than half a century has been found – and he is currently out to sea, his sister says.
In it the teenager says he is travelling on board the Fairstar, a ship that brought many British migrants to Australia during the 1960s under the assisted passage scheme.
The boy urges whoever finds the note to reply to him and gives an address in Melbourne.
On Thursday, the ABC reported that it had tracked down Gilmore’s sister, Annie Crossland.
“It’s amazing, absolutely incredible,” she told the ABC. “He’ll be chuffed to bits.”
In another twist, Crossland told the ABC from the UK that he was currently on a cruise in the Baltic Sea.
“The last time he was on a ship was probably going to Australia. Cruises aren’t his thing,” she said.
Crossland, who was on board, recalled seeing her brother writing letters and dropping them into bottles. He had dropped about six into the ocean, he said.
Oceanographer David Griffin said the bottle could not have remained afloat for 50 years off the south coast because “the ocean never stays still”.
Griffin suspected that the bottle had been buried on a beach for years, then refloated by a storm.
SOURCE: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2019/0...n-a-bottle-from-Russian-sailor/2111565279076/Alaska man finds 50-year-old message in a bottle from Russian sailor
An Alaska man found a message in a bottle that had been tossed into the water by a sailor on a Russian fishing boat 50 years earlier.
Tyler Ivanoff said he was north of the Bering Strait when he found the bottle containing a letter dated June 20, 1969.
Ivanoff took to social media for help translating the Russian letter, which was authored by a sailor aboard the Sulak, a fishing boat from the Soviet Far East fishing fleet.
The sailor said the ship was based out of the Russian city of Vladivostok. Records show the Sulak was decommissioned in 1992.
"We wish you good health, many years of life and happy sailing," the sailor wrote.
SOURCE: https://www.apnews.com/fd7e212fa3244829a7c8c482cc347641Alaska man discovers message in bottle from Russian Navy
... Ivanoff shared his discovery on Facebook where Russian speakers translated the message to be a greeting from a Cold War Russian sailor dated 1969, officials said. The message included an address and a request for a response from the person who finds it.
Reporters from the state-owned Russian media network, Russia-1, tracked down the original writer, Capt. Anatoliy Botsanenko.
“It looks like my handwriting. For sure! East industry fishing fleet! E-I-F-F!” Botsanenko said.
The message was sent while he was aboard the Sulak, a ship whose construction he oversaw in 1966 and that he sailed on until 1970, Botsanenko said.
When shown pictures of the bottle and note, Botsanenko teared up in joy, officials said.
At one point in his career, he was the youngest captain in the Pacific at 33 years old, Botsanenko said.
Ivanoff was not sure if he would return a message, but considered writing his own letters with his children.
“But that’s something I could probably do with my kids in the future. Just send a message in a bottle out there and see where it goes,” Ivanoff said.
Message in a bottle with family member's ashes found in Florida
A piece of "lost property" turned in to Florida sheriff's deputy after being found on a beach wound up being a message in a bottle that contained the ashes of a beloved family member.
The Walton County Sheriff's Office said Sgt. Paula Pendleton was on patrol Thursday when she was given a piece of "lost property" found on a Gulf of Mexico beach.
The item turned out to be a bottle containing two notes, four $1 bills and a small pouch of human ashes.
"This bottle contains the cremation ashes of my son, Brian, who suddenly and unexpectedly passed on March 9, 2019," one of the notes said. "More than anything, he longed to be free, so I'm sending him on one last adventure."
The note said Brian Mullins, of Dallas, Texas, died at age 39.
"Hi, my name is Peyton," another note said. "When my father passed, I was 14 years old. It has struck our whole family pretty hard and, so far, it has been a very hard road. But, like my granny said, he loved to be free. So, that's exactly what we are doing," she wrote.
The notes said the $4 enclosed in the bottle was meant to cover the cost of a phone call to the family to let them know where the bottle ended up.
Pendleton said she contacted the family via text message to tell them Brian's journey would continue.
"I am putting the note back into the bottle with Brian's ashes and delivering it to a friend who is a charter boat captain," she wrote. "He has offered to bring Brian way out into the Gulf so he can continue his adventure.
"But, before that, I want you to know he got to do a ride-a-long with a deputy before drifting out once again."
Message in a bottle gets rescue for stranded hikers in California
A family of hikers who became stranded above a 40-foot waterfall in California were rescued thanks to a message in a bottle and pair of strangers who found the request for help.
Custis Whitson, 44, said he was backpacking the Arroyo Seco River with his girlfriend and his 13-year-old son and after about two and a half days of trekking, they ended up at the Arroyo Seco narrows, a spot on the river surrounded by 40-foot walls of solid rock.
Whitson said the river current was too strong for them to pass, and he discovered a rope that he expected to be in place for them to rappel down was missing.
The hikers searched the area and discovered they were trapped, but they could hear voices somewhat nearby. Their calls for help went unanswered, so they carved "Help" on a Nalgene water bottle and inserted a note reading: "We are stuck at the waterfall -- get help please."
The family tossed the bottle over the waterfall and set up some rocks on a tarp reading "S.O.S." to help rescue crews find them.
Hours later, they were found by a California Highway Patrol helicopter. The CHP said two hikers found the message in a bottle and contacted authorities to begin a search.
The hikers who found the bottle didn't give authorities their names, but Whitson said he is hoping to identify them so he can thank them personally.
N.C. student's message in a bottle travels 4,000 miles to Morocco
A North Carolina girl's message in a bottle traveled more than 4,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean and was plucked out of the water by a fisherman in Morocco.
Vivian Byerly, then a third grader in Susan Ferguson's Greensboro Day School class, wrote the message in April 2019 as part of a class assignment.
Byerly and her classmates each wrote their own messages in bottles ...
The bottles were thrown into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Morehead City in May 2019 ...
One of the bottles was found by a fishing boat not long after entering the water, but there was no word from any of the others until Sunday, when Ferguson received an email.
The email, from a Moroccan fisherman, said Byerly's bottle had been found on White Beach near Guelmim, Morocco. ...
Message in a bottle travels from Britain to Massachusetts
A 3-year-old girl visiting a Massachusetts beach with her family made an unusual discovery in the sand -- a message in a bottle that crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 11 years.
The Chin family said they were visiting Falmouth Heights Beach when 3-year-old Lila found the bottle while searching for shells in the sand. ...
The family removed the cork from the bottle after the Saturday discovery and found a message.
"Sent from the U.K. March 3, 2009," the note read.
The family said they are planning to write their own message and throw the bottle back into the ocean.
Ewww! Mommy, it's from Britain! It's icky! Must I hold this?Here's bottled note that took 11 years to get from the UK to Massachusetts. I'm not sure whether the little girl who found it (see photo) is smiling with pride at her discovery or grimacing with disgust for having to hold the bottle for the photo.
Here's bottled note that took 11 years to get from the UK to Massachusetts. I'm not sure whether the little girl who found it (see photo) is smiling with pride at her discovery or grimacing with disgust for having to hold the bottle for the photo.
SOURCE: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/0...-from-Britain-to-Massachusetts/5921597689032/
They do look a bit alike!Nice to see that Emil Minty from Mad Max 2 is still getting publicity.
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Kayaker reunites author with message in a bottle from 1985
A kayaker who discovered a message in a bottle floating in a Delaware river was able to reunite the letter with the woman who wrote it 35 years ago.
Brad Wachsmuth thought the bottle bobbing in the water about 2 miles (3 kilometers) offshore of the Broadkill River was a piece of trash when he spotted it Aug. 8, just a few days after Tropical Storm Isaias swept through the area ...
“As we usually do as kayakers, we try to pick up trash out of the water when we can” ...
But Wachsmuth’s friend noticed there was something inside, and the two fished out the letter written by Cathi Riddle and her cousin, Stacey Wells, dated 35 years ago — Aug. 1, 1985. It described their family pets and asked potential future readers if they had any of their own, among other childhood musings.
Wachsmuth brought the letter to the Milton Historical Society and a curator reached out to family and put the two in touch ...
Riddle still lived just miles away in Milton, and Wachsmuth was able to return the letter to her Thursday. He said he was surprised it ended up in the same waters after decades of storms and tides, but Riddle suggested that maybe, it was fate.
“My cousin and I were staying at the beach and we decided to write the letter and send it out and see how far it went” ... “It didn’t travel very far, but perhaps it traveled the world and came back.”