Lost at sea....
"98-year-old message in bottle sets world record" Associated Press, August 31, 2012
LONDON — It was scooped from the sea after 98 years, and now
officials say a message in a bottle discovered in Scotland has set a
world record.
The message in a bottle discovered by fisherman Andrew Leaper.
Fisherman Andrew Leaper found the bottle — released in 1914 — in his
nets in April while sailing east of the Shetland Islands, which lie off
Scotland’s northern coast.
Guinness World Records confirmed Thursday the find is the oldest
message in a bottle ever recovered, beating a previous record by five
years.
It was released in a batch of 1,890 bottles in a government experiment to map the undercurrents of the seas around Scotland.
Inside each bottle, a postcard asks the finder to record details of
the discovery and promises a reward of a sixpence. Unfortunately for
Leaper, the coin no longer exists.
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I'm throwing it back.
