One day I want them to find a message in a bottle, frayed around the edges and worn from decades afloat, that doesn’t carry some important message.

Maybe something like ‘Hey this is Gerald, got drunk and drew a penis on a piece of paper and stuck it in this bottle. LOL’.

Alas this is not that occasion, although it does now hold the record for world’s oldest message in a bottle. Here’s LiveScience:

The oldest message in a bottle spent 108 years, 4 months and 18 days at sea.

After being cast into the sea by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (MBA) in November 1906, the message washed up at Amrum Island, in Germany, on April 17, 2015. This year, Guinness World Records recognized it as the oldest message in a bottle ever found…

A German woman discovered the bottle while visiting Amrum, one of Germany’s North Frisian Islands. The postcard inside promised a reward of 1 shilling (a former unit of currency that was equivalent to 12 pence) for filling in some information and returning the postcard. The MBA was determined to send her the proper reward.

The woman in question did eventually receive her shilling, which the MBA bought off eBay and sent her way.

Thankfully I don’t think there’s a movie script in this one, we don’t need a repeat of that 1999 flick with Kevin Costner please.

[source:livescience]

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