It is believed that the oldest in the world in a bottle that is every time -after have been recovered at sea 108 years old mess.
Marianne Winkler a retired postal worker, saw the bottle floating on the German island of Amrum. She said the clear glass bottle had a note inside bearing only the words: ". Break the Bottle"
"My husband tried to take the message of the bottle, but there was no chance, so we had to do what he was told," she said.
When the couple unfolded the note, they found a message in English, German and Dutch, who requested the search to fill some information about where and when they found the bottle, before returning to the Marine Biological Association in Plymouth. He said that whoever did was rewarded with a shilling.
The staff recognized MBA bottle was one of the 1,020 released in the North Sea between 1904 and 1906 as part of a project to test the strength of the currents. Communications Director of the Marine Biological Association, Guy Baker, said: "It was a time when they were inventing ways to investigate what currents and fish did.Many bottles were found by fishermen Others washed in the shore. and some were never recovered.Most of them were within a relatively short time. " True to his word, the association sent a couple shilling as payment promised. The current record is a bottle found after 99 years.
Marianne Winkler a retired postal worker, saw the bottle floating on the German island of Amrum. She said the clear glass bottle had a note inside bearing only the words: ". Break the Bottle"
"My husband tried to take the message of the bottle, but there was no chance, so we had to do what he was told," she said.
When the couple unfolded the note, they found a message in English, German and Dutch, who requested the search to fill some information about where and when they found the bottle, before returning to the Marine Biological Association in Plymouth. He said that whoever did was rewarded with a shilling.
The staff recognized MBA bottle was one of the 1,020 released in the North Sea between 1904 and 1906 as part of a project to test the strength of the currents. Communications Director of the Marine Biological Association, Guy Baker, said: "It was a time when they were inventing ways to investigate what currents and fish did.Many bottles were found by fishermen Others washed in the shore. and some were never recovered.Most of them were within a relatively short time. " True to his word, the association sent a couple shilling as payment promised. The current record is a bottle found after 99 years.
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