[www.keralites.net] Message in a Bottle Found… 98 Years Later

 

Message in a Bottle Found… 
98 Years Later

 

A bottle cast adrift in 1914 has been found off the coast of Scotland—and has broken a world record for the longest time a message in a bottle has been at sea.

It took almost a century for Captain CH Brown's message in a bottle to resurface from the sea, and its discovery landed a Guinness World Record for the Scottish man who found it, reports BBC News.

Andrew Leaper's discovery set a world record for longest time a bottle has been adrift at sea. The previous record was held by a bottle that had floated for 93 years—and, incredibly, was discovered by the same fishing boat, the Copious, based out of Shetland, Scotland.

The bottle was apparently released in June 1914 by the Glasgow School of Navigation, as part of a science experiment. The school released 1,890 bottles in an effort to map the sea currents around Scotland. So far, only 315 bottles have been found.

And just what was inside the 98-year-old bottle? A postcard from Captain Brown, offering a reward of six pence to the person who found it.

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