LET’S hope it wasn’t an SOS to the world. A twelve-year-old boy taking part in a beach clean-up project on Bermuda in the Caribbean has found a message in a bottle which travelled over 1,600km in four years. His father helped remove the cork and used a UV light to...
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A twelve-year-old boy taking part in a beach clean-up project on Bermuda in the Caribbean has found a message in a bottle which travelled over 1,600km in four years.
His father helped remove the cork and used a UV light to decipher the contents which indicated the longitude and latitude of where it was dropped.
The paper with the Atlantic Ocean coordinates (pictured) also had the email address of the owners of the French yacht which dropped it – with the boy confirming he had sent an email “but they haven’t responded yet”.
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