#messageinabottle

The oldest "Message in a Bottle" ever found (until now), from 1886:
"German sailors threw thousands of bottles overboard between 1864 and 1933 to chart ocean currents, and in 2018 a woman walking an Australian beach picked one up, 132 years after a captain logged it going over the rail — and the note's details matched the ship's journal exactly"

Fascinating story!

https://spacedaily.com/b-german-sailors-threw-thousands-of-bottles-overboard-between-1864-and-1933-to-chart-ocean-currents-and-in-2018-a-woman-walking-an-australian-beach-picked-one-up-132-years-after-a-captain-logged-it-go/

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