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| Message in a Bottle Discovered After 132 Years. |
Engineers have found a bottle with a 132-year-old message deep inside the walls of a lighthouse in the south of Scotland...
"It was like touching them. Like them being part of our team instead of just four of us being there, we were all there sharing what they had written because it was tangible and you could see the style of their handwriting.
"You knew what they had done. You knew they had hidden it in such a place it wouldn't be found for a long, long time."...
Here is the link for more about that.Hidden message in a bottle found in lighthouse wall after 132 years
The imagination is stirred when a beachcomber is lucky enough to find a bottle with a message rolling in the surf. It is an iconic image and literary device used by the likes of Edgar Allen Poe and Charles Dickens, but it also an occasional reality. The element of mystery is always involved, and sometimes the sense of time travel, tragedy, hope or romance.
The personal nature of the chance encounter suggests the workings of fate or something bigger. The message can be anything from a kids recent adventure to the hopeful communication of a stranded soul or part of a scientific experiment from years gone by. All of those are documented on the internet. You'll find some links below.
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| Bottle with Message Found by Perth Family. Source: See link below. |
A Perth family has found the world's oldest known message in a bottle, almost 132 years after it was thrown into the sea, Australian experts say.
Tonya Illman picked up the bottle while going for a walk around sand dunes on a remote beach in West Australia.
Her husband Kym Illman told the BBC they found some paper in the bottle but had "no idea" what it was until they took it home and dried it in the oven.
Experts have confirmed it is an authentic message from a German ship.
The note in the bottle, which was dated 12 June 1886, was jettisoned from the German ship Paula, as part of an experiment into ocean and shipping routes by the German Naval Observatory...
Oldest message in a bottle found on Western Australia beach
Message or no message, some of the bottles are neat on their own.
Here is a link to a video about a man who has been searching the beaches for messages in bottles, and in 34 years has found 1200.
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I found an article listing ten famous floating bottles with notes. Here is an excerpt from the first story.
A message in a bottle tossed in the sea in Germany 101 years ago, believed to be the world's oldest, was presented to the sender's granddaughter...
A fisherman pulled the beer bottle with the scribbled message out of the Baltic Sea off the northern city of Kiel in March, Holger von Neuhoff of the International Maritime Museum in the northern port city of Hamburg said....
Message in a bottle: 10 famous floating note discoveries - ABC News
There are some neat stories that you might want to read in that one.
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Wikipedia has a good article on the subject too.
Here is a little taste of that.
Scientific experiments involving drift objects—more generally called determinate drifters—provide information about currents and help researchers develop ocean circulation maps. For example, experiments conducted in the mid-1700s by Benmamin Frnaklin and others indicated the existence and approximate location of the Gulf Stream with scientific confirmation following in the mid-1800s. Using a network of beachcomber informants, rear admiral Alexander Becher is believed to be the first (from 1808–1852) to study travel of so-called "bottle papers"...- It is reputed that about 310 BC, Aristotle's protégé Greek philosopher Theophrastus used bottled messages to determine if the Mediterranean Sea was formed by the inflowing Atlantic Ocean.
- When Christopher Columbus encountered a severe storm while returning from America, he is said to have written on parchment what he had found in the New World and requested it be forwarded to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, enclosed the parchment in a waxed cloth and placed it into a large wooden barrel to be cast into the sea. The communication was never found...
Here is that link.
Message in a bottle - Wikipedia
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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov. |
As you can see, tomorrow we'll have some waves. Still easterly. Also, still some good high tides.
Rafael is a tropical storm headed away from us.
Good huntig,
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