Oldest-known message in a bottle found on WA beach 132 years after being tossed overboard

www.abc.net.au ^ | 03-06-2018 | By Charlotte Hamlyn

[bigbob]

“Send more gin”.

[jjotto]

If the message was damp, it wasn’t in the sea until very recently.

I’m thinking 50/50 hoax.

[rdcbn]

A good explanation is that the bottle ended on the beach at some time in the past and was buried in the sand .

[Blue Collar Christian]

I hope they return it to the Germans so they can tie up loose ends on their study.

[Democrats hate too much]

The people on the ship should be hung for trashing the environment with glass and creating climate change.

[originalbuckeye]

Agree. And the people who found it no doubt brought it into the museum in their bare hands......

[i_robot73]

>HOAX!

Course, it was written on the back of Zero’s birth certificate /s

[the OlLine Rebel]

This is so cool. Man would I love to be part of that little connection to the past.

[the OlLine Rebel]

LOL Good to see a meme of him! LOL Husband and I always joke about it (although it is, proudly, usually true!).

Think I’ll snatch that for my own usage!

And yes, I was thinking of it reading about this. “Cheaply made paper” - but apparently not so bad lasting 130 years with water to boot.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Most likely.

[teeman8r]

if you look at it closely... you will see the hawaiian doctor’s signature... Uk E Lele

[Carpe Cerevisi]

In before “Drink your Ovaltine”.

[Oscar in Batangas]

There is still hope, CNN. Maybe 777’s can float. Send ALL available staff to the Perth beaches and have them stand by.

[onyx]

WOW.

I love this!