A photo from open sources Senior citizen of Germany Marianne Winkler I caught a bottle with a letter from the sea. Time between Departure the message and its location turned out to be a record large – about a hundred eight years old. The find, according to local journalists, was made off the coast of Amrum Island, located in the North Sea.
Ironically, Marianne Winkler worked all her life the postman. When a pensioner discovered an unusual near the shore bottle, she removed it from the water and saw a note through the glass inside. On the outside of the note was: “Break the bottle.” The woman took the find and took it to her husband Horst. The latter, using the tools available in the house, tried to carefully remove the cork from the bottle, but nothing happened. As a result, pensioners nevertheless followed a straightforward instructions.
The paper in the bottle contained a message written in German, Danish and English. The sender asked to report immediately about finding in the Marine Biological Association located in English city of Plymouth. So the bottle was sent scientists in order to find out where the currents will bring it. IN As a reward, now deceased specialists have promised to the one who finds the bottle, one British shilling.
Winklers faithfully complied with this request, and it’s worth to say that their call literally shocked Morskoy employees biological association. According to the British, the message about finding a bottle dispatched from here more than a century ago caused the institution is a real commotion. Scientists said that between 1904 and In 1906, a thousand and twenty bottles were thrown into the North Sea. with an identical message. Similarly, experts have studied the power and direction of currents. Many bottles were caught by fishermen, but on the vast majority of messages no one has yet responded.
As promised, scientists paid German retirees one British shilling. I had to look for a coin, since shillings ceased to be produced in the United Kingdom as early as 1966. Winklers plan to file an application in the Guinness Book of Records, since the age of the oldest fixed bottle with a message is ninety-nine years old against a hundred and eight.
