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  • The Oldest Confirmed 'Message in a Bottle' Contained Some Fascinating Questions

    07/26/2021 11:26:15 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 18 replies
    https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | JULY 26, 2021 | MICHELLE STARR
    In 2018, a message in a bottle dating back to 1886 - 132 years ago - was found half-buried in the sand of a Western Australian beach. According to its contents, it spent more than a century swimming around, before it was discovered nearly 950 kilometres (590 miles) from where it was thrown off a ship in the Indian Ocean. Beachgoer Tonya Illman found the old gin bottle with a rolled-up message in January 2018, 50 meters (164 feet) from the shoreline at the high water mark on Wedge Island. Even though it was missing a cork, surprisingly both the...