It's not everyday that you hear about a real-life message in a bottle outside of a romantic comedy! Maybe we should keep our eyes out for a movie based on this story...
Because Guinness World Records confirmed the April 12 discovery of a 97-year-old message in a bottle by the Shetland Islands fishing boat. The bottle was released on June 10, 1914, by the Glasgow School of Navigation, one of a batch of 1,890 scientific research bottles designed to float close to the seabed. The location of the returned bottles allowed researchers to map the undercurrents of the seas around Scotland.
"It was just a normal day and we were out fishing for monkfish," Andrew Leaper, 43, who skippered the boat, Copious, said. "As we hauled in the nets, with a mixed catch of monks, megrim and cod, I spotted the bottleneck sticking out of the cod end of the net.
"I quickly grabbed the bottle before it fell back in the sea," he added.
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