WHAT is being billed as the world’s oldest message in a bottle has finally reached its destination, more than a century after being tossed into the North Sea as part of a research project. The bottle washed up on a beach on the German island of Amrum, part of the...
WHAT is being billed as the
world’s oldest message in a
bottle has finally reached its
destination, more than a century
after being tossed into the North
Sea as part of a research project.
The bottle washed up on a
beach on the German island of
Amrum, part of the North Frisian
group, and was found by a
couple in April who opened it to
find a postcard (pictured) asking
that it be sent to the Marine
Biological Association of the UK.
According to Guy Baker from
the Association, the bottle was
one of 1,000 tossed into the
ocean by the group’s former
president George Parker Bidder,
who was studying ocean
currents as he crossed the
Atlantic in 1905.
Inside each bottle was a
postcard promising a one shilling
reward to anyone who returned
it along with information about
where and when they found the
bottle.
The association is now hoping
the Guinness Book of Records
will recognise the message in a
bottle as the oldest ever found,
surpassing the previous record
of a 99-year-old bottle released
in 1914 found two years ago.
Meanwhile the German couple
who made the find have been
sent an antique shilling to fulfil
the promise on the postcard.
