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Message In A Bottle

This bottle traveled fairly quickly - covering 30 miles in 7 days.
Message in a bottle travels 30 miles in just seven days

A British family who launched some messages in a miniature bottles into the water said they were surprised when one was found 30 miles away -- after only one week.

Mandy and Liam Everall said they were visiting the Isle of Wight with their son, Rhys, and daughter, Lily, when they decided to toss four messages in bottles into the English Channel from a bridge. ...

The Everalls launched their bottles May 30, and were back at home in the Black Country region of England's West Midlands June 7 when they learned from a friend that one of their bottles had already made a splash on social media. ...

The note in question was found by Dot Hlawaty while she was walking her dog on the beach near Selsey, about 30 miles from where the bottles were launched. ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/0...erall-Isle-of-Wight-seven-days/1741623442689/
 
This message made it from Rhode Island to the Azores (circa 2,400 miles estimated voyage length).
Message in a bottle travels across the Atlantic Ocean

A Portuguese teenager has found a message in a bottle that traveled at least 2,400 miles from a Vermont teenager.

Christian Santos, 17, was spearfishing in the Azores when he found a crumpled plastic bottle that was tossed into the sea near Rhode Island in 2018, The Boston Globe reported.

Santos’ mother, Molly Santos, posted a photo of the note on Facebook asking for others to share the post in hopes of finding the writer to share how far the message traveled.

The note inside of a Powerade bottle was written in orange marker on a notecard that reads, “It is Thanksgiving. I am 13 and visiting family in Rhode Island. I am from Vermont.” ...
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FULL STORY: https://apnews.com/article/europe-atlantic-ocean-9c417df29186d90ca9526025dca226c2
 
A boat tour company employee discovered a 95-year-old message in a bottle while diving in Lake Huron (Michigan).
Michigan Woman Finds 95 Year Old Message In A Bottle In Cheboygan

A woman who works for Nautical North Family Adventures in Cheboygan, MI made an astounding discovery in Lake Huron that trails all the way to Kalamazoo. While "washing windows" she came across a small green bottle that had a paper scroll inside of it. Upon opening the bottle she discovered a message written on paper that reads: "WILL THE PERSON WHO FINDS THIS BOTTLE, RETURN THIS PAPER TO GEORGE MORROW CHEBOYGAN, MICHIGAN. and tell where it was found? September 1926." This prompted everyone who saw the discovery to try and track down his family. ...

It looks as though the family has been tracked down, as a quick search shows that George Morrow was actually buried in Kalamazoo ...

Many people belonging to the Morrow lineage started finding out that he could be a part of the family and apparently the family was contacted:

"I CALLED THE DAUGHTER ON THE PHONE!!! SHE'S So excited!! She said that this is exactly what her father would have done. They do not have Facebook so she had no clue that so many people were searching for her family. I emailed her all the info of the company and the pictures posted."

We'll have to wait and see what the family will do once they have the message.
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FULL STORY: https://wkfr.com/message-in-bottle-cheboygan-michigan/

MORE From The Tour Company's Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Straitsarea/
 
This message floated from Japan to Hawaii, where it was discovered 37 years after its launching.
Message in a bottle launched from Japan found in Hawaii 37 years later

A 9-year-old girl visiting a Hawaii park with her family discovered a message in a bottle that was launched from Japan 37 years earlier.

Abbie Graham, 9, of Keaau, was visiting Hawaiian Paradise Park with her parents and sister when she found a mud-caked glass bottle on the beach. ...

Parents Angie and John Graham said they were initially skeptical that the object was anything other than litter. ...

The family took the bottle with them, and they eventually discovered Abbie's suspicions that they had discovered a message in a bottle were correct. ...

The note inside the bottle was authored by the Chiba Prefectural Choshi High School Natural Science Club in Japan. The message was printed in English, Spanish and Japanese.

"This bottle was thrown into the sea off the coast of Choshi, Japan, in July 1984," the note read.

The letter asked the finder to get into contact with the club with information including the coordinates where the bottle was discovered. It said the bottle was part of an "ocean current investigation."

The family said they have not yet been able to get into contact with the authors of the message.

"We looked online, but the website is all in Japanese, so we couldn't read anything," John Graham said. "So we figured we'd just maybe laminate it and send it back to the school at the address they gave us. We figure the people who sent it have got to be 50, 55 years old by now." ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/07/14/message-bottle-Japan-Hawaii-Abbie-Graham/6531626290360/
 
ramonmercado said:
Oldest-known message in a bottle found on WA beach 132 years after being tossed overboard
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-06/oldest-known-message-in-a-bottle-found-on-wa-beach/9518632
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Some updates ...

(1) This object was confirmed by Guinness as the oldest message in a bottle back in 2018:

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/oldest-message-in-a-bottle

(2) The Western Australia Museum's formal report on the object and its authentication can be acccssed as a PDF file:

Diese Flasche wurde űber Bord geworfen’: a message in a bottle from the German barque Paula (1886) discovered at Wedge Island, Western Australia
https://museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-a..._report_325_paula_bottle_message_020318_0.pdf
 
EnolaGaia said:
This UK message bottle was launched in 1961 - apparently intended to float across the Atlantic to the USA.


FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/0...-for-US-found-on-British-beach/2021613075474/
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A MESSAGE in a bottle found in Hove could have been sent by a 1950s pop-singer, one man has said.

Iain Williams wrote to the Argus after reading about the discovery of letter, which had been tucked away inside a bottle for 60 years before washing up on the beach.

Indiana Tarrant, 21 and Luca Gamberini, 21, were skimming stones on Hove beach on Tuesday, February 2 when they made the unusual find.

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/19112310.message-bottle-found-hove-1950s-singer/
 
A Canadian fisherman's message in a bottle launched off Newfoundland was discovered by boys in Ireland.
Irish boys find message in a bottle from Canadian fisherman

A trio of boys visiting an Irish beach found a message in a bottle that crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Newfoundland, Canada.

Brothers Oisin O'Doherty and Eoghan O'Doherty from Greencastle, Ireland, were on a County Kerry beach near the The Glen Pier with cousin Odhran O'Sullivan when they spotted a bottle among some rocks along the coastline. ...

The boys enlisted the help of a relative to retrieve and open the bottle, which contained a message authored by Canadian fisherman Craig Drover.

Catherine McGeoghegan, the brothers' grandmother, posted photos of the discovery to Facebook.

"This bottle was tossed over the side of the Artic Eagle on the grand banks of Newfoundland, Canada while fishing for snow crabs," Drover wrote.

The note contained an email address, which the boys used to contact Drover. ...

Drover said he frequently tosses messages in bottles into the water during his fishing trips. One of his bottles was previously discovered in 2018 by a surfer off the coast of Spain.
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FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/0...nty-Kerry-Ireland-Craig-Drover/3011629401838/
 
Some bottled messages are never cast into water at all. An Australian man recently discovered a message in a bottle hidden between walls in his house.
Man finds nearly 50-year-old message between two walls of his home

An Australian man renovating his home found a message in a bottle concealed between two walls, and was able to find one of the construction workers who wrote the note nearly 50 years earlier.

Matt Streatfeild, of Newcastle, New South Wales, said a glass milk bottle was found between two walls in his home during a recent renovation project, and inside was a note signed by four construction workers who built the walls decades earlier. ...

The note, dated April 5, 1974, lists the workers who completed the project and explains the project was among their first after converting to the metric system.

"You always hear the legend of messages in a bottle, but you never think you'll find one in between two walls in your own house," Streatfeild told NBN News. ...

Streatfeild said he plans to return the bottle to its former home when the renovation project is completed, along with a message in a bottle of his own. ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/1...alls-Newcastle-New-South-Wales/3241634241103/
 
EnolaGaia said:
Some bottled messages are never cast into water at all. An Australian man recently discovered a message in a bottle hidden between walls in his house.

FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/1...alls-Newcastle-New-South-Wales/3241634241103/
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There was a national news 'interest' story along those lines some years ago, where anonymously written notes (possibly in bottles or jars) were found hidden in the structures of several ordinary houses in some English town. The gist of the messages was an account of scandalous extra marital goings-on between certain local 'respectable' people.

I vaguely remember this happening in my home town too.

As with the Newcastle, New South Wales bottle, I'm guessing this is done by workers rather than residents.

Wasn't there an FT item about the messages in houses?
 
This bottle message is the second one launched by a Quebec man to arrive in the UK.
Scottish man finds second message in a bottle from Canada

A man walking on a beach in Scotland found a message in a bottle and discovered it was the second such message to travel across the Atlantic Ocean from the same man in Canada.

Andrew Eaton-Lewis, a 48-year-old Uig resident, posted about the discovery on Facebook, seeking help translating the message, which was written in French. He found the bottle washed up on the beach during a recent outing at Cliff Beach with friends and family. ...

Eaton-Lewis initially thought the bottle was trash left behind from a picnic. But a closer look revealed it had barnacles stuck to it with a note inside dated Jan. 26, 2020.

The message, signed by Andre Huet of Quebec, Canada, and placed inside a plastic bag, wasn't the first to be sent across the Atlantic Ocean by the same man.

Last year, a woman participating in a beach cleaning event in Portland, England, made a similar discovery. Mary Bird found a bottle on the beach containing a note in French inside a plastic bag from Andre Huet. ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/10/22/Scotland-message-bottle/6061634914172/
 
I can't decide whether this bottled message (giving no clues to who launched it or where it entered the water) is worse for being cryptic or better for being more mysterious ... You decide!
Woman walking on Alaska beach finds message in a bottle from 1987

A woman walking on an Alaska beach is trying to unravel the mystery of an unusual discovery: a message in a bottle apparently launched in 1987.

Pam Joy of Skagway said she was walking on the beach at the Dyea flats when she spotted a bottle with a group of washed-up logs, branches and other debris. ...

Joy opened the bottle and discovered a written message on a sheet of paper: "Happy New Year 1987!"

The message was not signed and did not say where the bottle was launched, Joy said.

"Maybe it really hasn't traveled very far. Or maybe it came from Australia. Who knows?" ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/11/03/message-bottle-Dyea-flats-Alaska/3851635970641/
 
This message in a bottle took six years to float from Florida to Portugal.
Message in a bottle travels from Florida to Portugal in six years

A Canadian couple threw a message in a bottle into the ocean during a Florida vacation in 2015 and their note was discovered on a Portuguese beach six years later.

Brigitte Doerksen of Morris, Manitoba, said she and her husband, Warren, were vacationing in Miami in February 2015 when he suggested they use an empty wine bottle to launch a message in a bottle from the beach. ...

Doerksen said she wrote a note asking the finder of the bottle to contact her and included her business card and $2 as extra incentive.

The bottle disappeared into the ocean and turned up again during the weekend when Lisa Dzierzak-Vieira and her husband, Marco, were walking their dog with their daughter, Lua, on a Porto Santo, Portugal, beach. ...

Doerksen said it took her a few moments to understand what she was seeing when she opened the email sent by the Portuguese couple.

"I was like, what?" she said. "It did not comprehend at first, I was like, what is this?"

Doerksen said she and her husband are hoping to visit Portugal to see the spot where their bottle landed and meet the people who found it. ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/1...i-Florida-Porto-Santo-Portugal/6811637177599/
 
The message-in-a-bottle strategy doesn't always work out as hoped. This Irish man launched a bottled plea for ladies to contact him back in 1999. Some 22 years later the bottle turned up only 18 miles away and long after he'd married.
LONG TIME, NO SEA Irishman’s message in a bottle in search of girlfriend turns up 22 years later – 18 miles from his home

AN Irishman took his search for a girlfriend to a new extreme 22 years ago when he shipped off a message in a bottle - but it only travelled 18 miles.

Stephen Caulfield's note was recently discovered near his home in Co Down. ...

He sent his bottled letter on January 5, 1999, writing: “I am 22 years old. Please write to me if you are a girl. Thanks!”

The letter did not reach any exotic lands and was discovered in Dundrum, another Co Down village.

Speaking to the Belfast Telegraph, Stephen said he was "hoping for the bottle to reach a bit further". ...

He said: "I threw it in at the docks beside Campbell's garage [in 1999] and absolutely had forgotten about it. It was done just to see how far it would go (it was a bit tongue-in-cheek). I had previously thrown one in when I was a teenager. ...

With no replies from any exotic girls to his letter, the 44-year-old confirmed that he did not meet his wife via any correspondence from a bottle. ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.thesun.ie/news/8100924/irish-man-message-in-bottle-girlfriend-down/
 
This bottle's transatlantic transit / discovery was relatively quick compared to some others. It arrived and was found in Donegal recently, after having been launched from Maryland in 2019.
Message in a bottle crosses Atlantic Ocean from Maryland to Ireland

A couple walking on a beach in Northern Ireland found a message in a bottle that was launched from the United States in 2019.

Rita Simmonds and Ciaran Marronn, of Belfast, said they were walking Wednesday at Magheraroarty beach, on the Dooey Peninsula in Ireland's County Donegal, when they spotted a glass bottle in the sand. ...

The bottle contained $2 in U.S. currency and contained a note that revealed it had been launched from Ocean City, Md., in 2019. ...

The note's author, an 11-year-old girl named Sasha, included a phone number and asked the finders of her bottle to get into contact. The couple said they are planning to attempt call the girl to tell her what happened to her message in a bottle. ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/0...ntic-Ocean-Maryland-to-Ireland/3291641505632/

For More Details and Photos See Also:
https://www.donegaldaily.com/2022/01/06/message-in-a-bottle-makes-incredible-journey-to-donegal/
 
A man discovered a message in a bottle in the same Australian river into which another guy had launched it 25 years earlier.
Message in a bottle found in Australian river after 25 years

An Australian man found a 25-year-old message in a bottle in a river and found the sender by using social media.

Marty Monson, of King Island, said he found the bottle in early January along the Sea Elephant River and posted photos of it and the faded message he found inside to a community Facebook group. ...

The message, dated June 14, 1996, was signed by Mark Burton and included contact information, but Monson said the phone numbers apparently were out of date. ...

Burton said he recently received messages from his sister and mother alerting him to Monson's post, and when he looked he was shocked to see the message in a bottle he and a friend had tossed into the river 25 years earlier.

"It's one of those things you do as a kid, and you don't think anything will come of it," Burton said. ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/0...s-Sea-Elephant-River-Australia/6891642628434/
 
It took years for a bottle and message launched offshore of Scotland to make it to a Norwegian beach in 2020, then required another wait of over a year for the original author / launcher to be found.
Message in a bottle from Scotland reaches Norway 25 years later

A message in a bottle launched by a young girl in Scotland in the 1990s was found 25 years later by a woman walking on a Norwegian beach with her young son.

Elena Andreassen Haga said she and her son, Eliah, were walking on the beach in Gasvaer when they found a bottle with a letter inside. ...

They opened the bottle and discovered the note had been written in 1996 by a girl named Joanna Buchan. The letter said the bottle was thrown into the water from a fishing boat off the coast of Peterhead, about 800 miles from where it ended up.

The letter, written as part of a school project, featured the author's opinions on school, her dog, teddy bears, her "rather big house" and other subjects.

"By the way, I hate boys," the letter concluded. ...

Haga found the bottle in 2020 and tracked Buchan down on Facebook, but she didn't discover the message request until this week.

"I vaguely remember doing a message in a bottle at Peterhead Central School that we sent off Peterhead in 1996," Buchan, who is now working as doctor in Australia, told BBC Scotland....

Haga said she was happy to have finally connected with the message's author. She said she is not the first person in her family to make such a discovery.

"My father also found a message in a bottle when he was about 5, and he's 66 now, so that's quite some time ago, but in the same area" ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/0...ottle-25-years-Scotland-Norway/8961643404198/
 
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Here's a variation on the theme ... Workers renovating a Scottish golf course discovered a 95-year-old message in a bottle buried in a fairway bunker.
Workers at Scottish golf course unearth 95-year-old message in a bottle

Workers doing renovations on a Scottish golf course made a surprising discovery -- a 95-year-old message in a bottle buried in a bunker.

The Golf House Club in Elie, which was established in May 1875, said workers were making improvements to the fairway bunkers on the ninth hole recently when they found a bottle buried in one of the hazards. ...

The workers looked inside the bottle and found a message written on the back of a Craven cigarette package. The message was dated Nov. 18, 1926.

"We are here today, but where we will be when this is found we do not know. Good luck," the message reads.

Gavin Cook, the golf club's secretary, said officials looked into records and determined the three men who signed the note -- T. Donaldson, D. King and W. Eason -- were employees at the facility in the 1920s.

Cook said the workers plan to bury their own message in a bottle in the same spot once the work is completed.
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SOURCE: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/0...le-found-buried-on-golf-course/1271643923802/
 
A message in a bottle containing cremains was discovered in Florida. The message asked that the bottle be thrown back in the water if found. The finder is trying to locate the bottle's initiator because it's leaking and will sink if the instructions are fulfilled.
Florida kayaker finds message in a bottle containing man's ashes

A Florida kayaker said he picked up what initially appeared to be trash in the water and soon discovered it was a message in a bottle that contained a man's cremains. ...

"It was just kind of intertwined with the mangroves, kind of looked like junk," Zimmerman told WBBH-TV.

Zimmerman said a closer examination revealed the floating bottle entangled with a "Happy Birthday" balloon contained a written message and someone's ashes. ...

The author of the message inside the bottle wrote that the ashes were the cremains of a deceased brother whose birthday would have been Feb. 5.

"If you receive this bottle, please throw him back in the water," the message's author wrote.

Zimmerman said he decided not to immediately throw the bottle back into the water because it was poorly sealed and starting to leak.

The kayaker said he is now hoping to get in touch with the deceased man's family to help them find a more permanent vessel for their beloved relative's remains.
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SOURCE: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/02/08/message-bottle-cremains-Cape-Coral-Florida/3241644354399/
 
No bottle involved, but clearly the same concept ... A school in New Hampshire assembled a miniature boat equipped with GPS and loaded with miscellaneous messages and items. It was launched into the Gulf Stream in 2020 and tracked (whenever its GPS signal was intermittently detectable). The boat, damaged and partially disintegrated, made it to Norway this month.
'Magical': Norway 6th-grader finds Rye students' mini boat launched in 2020

After a group of Rye Junior High School students built a roughly six-foot-long miniature boat and filled it with gifts in late 2020, they set it out in the Atlantic Ocean, hoping it would eventually wash ashore and be opened by someone across the globe.

While some students wished for it to drift to Europe, then-sixth grader Solstice Reed wasn’t as convinced the voyage would be successful. “Honestly, I thought it would sink,” she admitted.

Fortunately, to her and her peers’ pleasant surprise, Reed’s initial skepticism turned out to be unfounded.

The Rye Riptides boat, equipped with a tracking device, spent 462 days at sea and registered its coordinates at different points throughout its journey. And this month, at long last, a curious sixth-grader in Smøla, a small island near Dyrnes, Norway, found the semi-dismantled boat, later bringing it to his school and opening it with his own delighted classmates. ...

In its time at sea, Rye Riptides traversed over 8,300 miles en route to its final destination. ...

Covered in gooseneck barnacles that had grown on it, Rye Riptides had been dismasted, with its hull and keel no longer attached. The boat’s deck and its cargo hold, with the items that Rye Junior High Students had placed in them more than a year before, were still intact. ...
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FULL STORY (With Photos): https://www.seacoastonline.com/stor...rye-riptides-educational-passages/6726124001/
 
A beach walker in the UK discovered a bottle message launched by a 6-year-old Canadian girl in the Bahamas 21 years ago.
Message in a bottle travels from Bahamas to England in 21 years

A visitor to a British beach found a message in a bottle that had been launched from the Bahamas by a Canadian girl 21 years earlier.

Crispin Benton said he was taking a post-work walk on Castle Beach in Falmouth, England, when he spotted a bottle on the tide line. ...

"It was hide tide, so it was likely it had freshly washed in. I picked it up, then I thought 'Oh my goodness, there's a message in there' and got a bit excited," Benton told The Falmouth Packet. ...

The letter, dated June 21, 2001, was authored by a 6-year-old Canadian girl named Anna who was visiting the Bahamas.

"Please don't pollute. Thank you," Anna wrote.

Anna included a mailing address and asked for the finder to write her a letter, but Benton said a search online revealed the address has since been converted into an industrial estate.

Benton said he is now hoping Anna will find out about the bottle's discovery and get in contact. ...
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SOURCE: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/03/18/message-bottle-Castle-Beach-Falmouth-England/6801647635927/
 
Just another example of how balloon releases are evil.

A message in a bottle containing cremains was discovered in Florida. The message asked that the bottle be thrown back in the water if found. The finder is trying to locate the bottle's initiator because it's leaking and will sink if the instructions are fulfilled.
A Florida kayaker said he picked up what initially appeared to be trash in the water and soon discovered it was a message in a bottle that contained a man's cremains. ...
"It was just kind of intertwined with the mangroves, kind of looked like junk," Zimmerman told WBBH-TV.
Zimmerman said a closer examination revealed the floating bottle entangled with a "Happy Birthday" balloon contained a written message and someone's ashes. ..."
 
This bottle was launched near Puerto Rico in 1995. It was discovered in Brittany recently.
Message in a bottle tossed from fishing boat in 1995 found in France

A message in a bottle that was thrown into the Atlantic ocean in 1995 was discovered after it came ashore in Brittany, France.

The bottle came from Jonathan 'Ivan' Saunders who was working as the engineer on a fishing boat from Gloucester, Mass., named the Hannah Boden. ...

Saunders described the boat he was on, listed its crew, including Captain Linda Greenlaw, listed his coordinates and asked whoever found it to respond back to him with the date and location where the bottle was recovered.

Saunders left his address at the bottom of the message and also placed a dollar bill inside the bottle. The letter was dated April 20, 1995, and the bottle was released near Puerto Rico.

CBS Boston spoke with Greenlaw, who said she had lost track of Saunders. ...

Greenlaw also stated that dollar bills are usually placed into bottles so that finders will open them and not think they're trash. ...
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FULL STORY (With Video): https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/03/24/Message-in-a-bottle-France/6901648123288/
 
This message made it from the Georgia coast to France in 2 years.
Message in a bottle travels from Georgia to France in just over 2 years

A Tennessee woman who launched a message in a bottle into the ocean during a trip to Georgia said she received word more than two years later that it had been found in France.

Victoria Kay of Knoxville said she and her boyfriend were visiting St. Simon's Island in January 2020 when she decided to put a watercolor painting into a bottle and launch it into the ocean with a message wishing the finder a "Happy New Year." ...

"I wrote a quick message on the back and I put Saran wrap over it and put mailing tape and then just tossed it out of the pier," Kay told WVLT-TV.

Kay included her email address in the note, and she received a message two years and two months later from a woman who found the bottle more than 4,000 miles away in Brittany, France. ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/04/06/message-bottle-Georgia-to-France-4000-miles/1611649271642/
 
Ok, we are on page 6 now.

When you think how vast the ocean is, is it surprising that the messages are found?

How many are launched unsuccessfully?
 
This message drifted farther in time (56 years) than distance (a few yards).
Teenagers' message in a bottle seeking boyfriends found after 56 years

A pair of British teenagers in search of boyfriends launched a message in a bottle into an estuary in 1966 -- and it was found more than five decades later by a litter-picking crew.

Members of the Scunthorpe Litter Pickers group said they found the message in a bottle while cleaning up around the Humber Estuary in South Ferriby, North Lincolnshire, England. ...

The group members opened the bottle and found a note written by 15-year-old friends Jennifer Coleman and Janet Blankley. The letter, dated Aug. 9, 1966, asked any single boys over the age of 16 and under the age of 18 to write back.

Tracey Marshall, a member of the litter-picking crew, was able to find Coleman on Facebook.

Coleman, who moved to Australia after finishing school, said she location where the bottle was found was only a few yards from where she and Blankley launched it.

"I think it must have gone out a little way, and then came in on the next tide," Coleman told the BBC. ...

Coleman said the bottled message was unsuccessful in finding her a boyfriend, but she did eventually find love at the age of 49.
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SOURCE: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/0...riends-Humber-Estuary-66-years/7921649349628/
 
Kondoru said:
When you think how vast the ocean is, is it surprising that the messages are found?
How many are launched unsuccessfully?
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That's a good question. I suppose the proportion of messages launched that are ever found is one of the sub-mysteries to this mysteriously persistent activity.
 
A bottled message launched by a New York 4th-grader in 2011 as part of a class project was recently found in the Bahamas.
New York student's message in a bottle found in Bahamas after 11 years

A message in a bottle launched into the Atlantic Ocean by a New York state fourth-grader was found 11 years later by a woman in the Bahamas.

The Brockport Parent, Teacher, Student Association, which serves the Brockport Central School District in New York, said in a Facebook post that the district was recently contacted by a woman in the Bahamas who found a washed-up message in a bottle. ...

The post said students in Chris Albrecht's fourth grade class at Fred Hill Intermediate School had created bottled messages in 2011 and they were launched into the Atlantic Ocean. ...
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FULL STORY (With Photo): https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/0...-bottle-found-Bahamas-11-years/3881651259215/
 
This story is different because people who find the bottle are adding their own messages and re-launching the bottle.
Message in a bottle travels from North Carolina to Massachusetts

A message in a bottle launched from a North Carolina island in early April turned up nearly two months later after floating more than 700 miles to a Massachusetts island.

Philip Wise said he and his son were visiting Hatteras, N.C., in April when they attempted to launch a message in a bottle into the Atlantic Ocean. ...

"On April 7, my youngest son and I tried to throw a message in a bottle into the ocean in Hatteras village," Wise told the Island Free Press. "We tried all day, but the Atlantic kept sending it back to the shore. Later on that evening, we threw the bottle into the water at Hatteras Landing Marina."

The bottle turned out to have washed up the next day on another Hatteras beach, where it was found by a woman who added her own note and launched the bottle back into the water.

Wise said he received a photo of the bottle and its messages on Wednesday from Samuel Southworth, who reported finding the bottle on Tuckernuck Island, off the tip of Cape Cod.

Wise said Southworth told him he added his own sheet of paper to the bottle -- a drawing of a whale -- and plans to throw it back into the ocean. ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/06/02/message-bottle-North-Carolina-Massachusetts/8391654202180/
 
A bottled message launched into a landlocked lake is a somewhat useless action as well as a potential safety hazard.
South Carolina couple find message in a bottle in Lake Murray

A South Carolina couple are trying to solve the mystery of a message in a bottle they plucked out of Lake Murray.

Katelyn Moody of Aiken said she and her husband, Austin, were boating on Lake Murray during the weekend when she spotted what she initially thought was trash floating in the water. ...

Moody picked up the Bay Bridge wine bottle and discovered it contained a sandwich bag with a note inside.

The note was covered in positive messages including "family is everything," "do everything you can to help others in need and be happy" and "may life be like a roll of toilet paper, long and useful."

Moody posted photos of the bottle and the paper ... in the hopes of identifying the note's author and finding out how long it had been in the water.

Mike Kirk, president of the Lake Murray Association, cautioned copycats against using glass bottles for messages.

"You could have a boat strike that bottle at a high rate of speed, damage the haul on the boat, damage the prop. You could have a water skier hit it and suffer a personal injury" ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/06/14/message-bottle-Lake-Murray-South-Carolina/1251655237637/
 
Here's a story about a bottled message launched into a Mississippi lake in 1989. It traveled almost 300 miles before being discovered in a river system downstream from the one in which the lake was located.
Mississippi message in a bottle traveled 295 miles in 33 years

A crew doing work in a river in Mississippi found a message in a bottle that turned out to have been launched 33 years earlier into a lake 295 miles away.

Billy Mitchell of Vicksburg-based Big River Shipbuilders said his crew was working in the Yazoo River when they found a glass bottle floating in the water. ...

The bottle turned out to contain a letter, but the paper was wet and difficult to remove, so they put the bottle into the microwave for a few seconds to help dry it.

The note came apart, but Mitchell and colleague Brad Babb were able to piece it together enough to determine it had been launched into Sardis Lake, about 295 miles from where it was found, in 1989.

The note had been authored by a sixth grader named Brian Dahl for a school project.

Photos of the message in a bottle were posted to Big River Shipbuilders' Facebook page in the hopes of finding Dahl, but a few days after the post Babb received a call from a man who identified himself as Dahl's father.

Babb said the phone call turned emotional when Dahl's father told him his son had died several years earlier. ...
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SOURCE: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/06/15/message-bottle-Mississippi-33-years/5031655321405/
 
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