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Message in a Bottle
by Vinny | March 23, 2008 at 02:14 pm | 419 views | 4 comments
A message in a bottle from 1986 has drifted 1,735 miles, the message was part of a science project to study the oceans and learn about people in distant lands.
SEATTLE - Merle Brandell and his black lab Slapsey were beachcombing along the Bering Sea when he spied a plastic bottle among the Japanese glass floats he often finds along the shore of his tiny Alaskan fishing village.
He walked over and saw an envelope tucked inside. After slicing the bottle open, Brandell found a message from an elementary school student in a suburb of Seattle. The fact that the letter traveled 1,735 miles without any help from the U.S. postal service is unusual, but that's only the beginning of the mystery.
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March 23, 2008 at 02:14 pm by Vinny, 419 views, 4 comments
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at 14:17 on March 23rd, 2008
I love it. I'm also resisting the urge to add a Police video...
at 14:19 on March 23rd, 2008
Thanks Jordan, I was just adding a Police video as you were typing.
at 20:49 on March 23rd, 2008
Vinny, I like this story. It's good stuff.
"If I could save time in a bottle...."
at 05:26 on March 24th, 2008
Vinny, message in a bottle, did you get an SOS? I love stories like this It's good stuff.