Schoolboy's message in a bottle turns up five months later on Danish beach
By Leon Watson
Last updated at 1:57 PM on 21st January 2012
A message in a bottle hurled into the sea by a British schoolboy has turned up 400 miles away in Denmark.
Noah Gill, 10, received a surprise e-mail from school children last week after they discovered the slime-covered bottle on a beach in Lemvig.
The bottle had slowly bobbed across the North Sea for five months before washing up on the Danish coastline.
And after finding the bottle, the Danish pupils quickly fired off the email to Noah to tell him how far his message had got.
Noah, from Hull, East Yorkshire, had launched the glass bottle into the sea off the Humberside coast five months ago during a family trip to Spurn Point.
But he never expected it to get any further than Withernsea - just 15 miles north.
The Bricknell Primary School pupil said: 'When it turned up, I thought "Wow". It was something fun to do.
'I wrote what I liked doing on the note and what I did and which school I go to. I threw it in the water at Spurn Point.
'I sort of forgot about it. I never thought it would go very far. Then a headmaster in Denmark got in touch with my dad and said he had found my bottle.
'I did not think that would happen. It’s lucky they got back in touch otherwise we would never have known where it got to.'
Noah's father Lawrence Gill said: 'We like to go to Spurn to spend time, we love it.
'Last August, we were thinking about what to do while we were there. And we thought we could do a message in a bottle.
'Noah wrote on it his name, age, school, where he lived and what he likes doing and our e-mail address.
'We found a glass bottle and sealed the top with wax so water would not get in it.
'Noah threw it out when the tide was going out so it had a chance of getting somewhere rather than just Immingham Docks.
'I think his mum and I were more excited than he was when we heard from Denmark. 8)
'After we had thrown it in, I did wonder sometimes where it was, and thought it had probably ended up at Withernsea.'
The headteacher of the Danish school got in touch with Noah's family, as well as Bricknell Primary School head teacher Tim Attwater.
Mr Attwater said: 'We got the e-mail from the head, who said it was quite a timely find for his pupils because they were doing a project about what they could find on the beach.
'We got back in touch by e-mail, rather than putting a message in a bottle as it is much quicker.'
Pupils at the school have now sent their Danish counterparts pictures of them in uniform as well as telling them about the school and what they get up to.
Mr Attwater added: 'We said we would love to keep in touch. It is a really nice opportunity to make links.
'We try wherever we can to find links with schools in other countries. It is really important that children understand their place in the wider world.
'It is about showing them what life is about elsewhere so they develop a grasp of the world.
'It will be nice for the children to find out about the Danish schools curriculum and how their school day works.'
The pupils are now anxiously waiting to hear from their new pen pals.
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