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Category Archives: Adventure

Irish Sisters Send Twin Messages in Bottles, Both Found Days Apart in UK

12 Saturday Aug 2017

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There are a few kinds of message in a bottle stories I am a sucker for. Near the top of the list are those involving kiddos, and those highlighting the plastic pollution plague in our ocean. This story does both!

Rachel and Olivia, 12 and 9 respectively, each sent a message in a bottle while on a family outing in Brittas Bay, Ireland, near Arklow, according to BBC Wales.

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Rachel, left, and Olivia, right. Photo: Mythen Family / Shemazing.net

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1987 Message In A Bottle Found: “We Tried to Sail Away”–Help find the senders!

26 Friday May 2017

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Well, this is a weird one!

Enviro-crusader and “litter picker” Paul Southworth (I am a fan!) was recently out cleaning trash from Arastradero Lake in California–it’s nestled in the San Francisco Bay area. Woo hoo!

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Paul with his trusty litter grabber and bags of junk from litterpicking the O&W Rail Trail in Kerhonkson, NY.

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Message in a Bottle Archives: British War Ships to Hunt Castaways Down Under?

18 Saturday Mar 2017

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In its early days, Australia had two main newspapers. One was The Argus.

On Friday, July 9th, 1909, The Argus told of a message in a bottle found in Singapore. It was signed by two men, Palmerston and Flenn, who asked the finder to send help, as they were “lost in one of the New Guinea islands”.

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The brief message simply read: Continue reading →

Fearless Explorers: Cremated Sailors of the Seven Seas

11 Saturday Mar 2017

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Life is such an amazing adventure that most folks don’t want it to end. And when it inevitably does, some send their loved ones on a final journey. In recent years, a number of beachcombers have stumbled upon human ashes in bottles. In every case, the person whose ashes are in the bottle was deeply loved by their family, and the family chose this gesture as a way of honoring the person’s love of travel or desire to see the world.

Personally, my favorite version of this memorial is the kind that implores the finder to share a drink with the “person” whose ashes are in the bottle.

If you find human remains in a bottle tomorrow, I guarantee a stiff drink is going to make you feel less nervous. Continue reading →

Message in a Bottle Archives of the Sea: 42 Days on Beer and Cake

18 Saturday Feb 2017

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On January 30th, 1895, a German steamship called Elbe was in the North Sea, making her way from Bremerhaven to New York carrying 354 passengers.

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SS Elbe

In the predawn hours of January 31st, she was accidentally rammed by Continue reading →

Help Solve This Lithuanian Message in a Bottle! Seeking Žygis, Aivaras, and Modesta or Modestas!

27 Friday Jan 2017

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One day in 2013, a young woman named Jess and her dog were walking along the beach on the UK’s east coast.

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Prayer in a Bottle

23 Wednesday Nov 2016

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Around this time last year, a woman named Sarah Hyde found a message in a bottle written in Spanish. With help from a friend, she discovered it amounted to a sort of prayer written by the sender, wishing for the safe passage of a family from Cuba to America.

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Pip Manby: I Found Two Messages in Bottles From the Same Person (Plus a response from that person!)

20 Sunday Nov 2016

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It may sound funny coming from me, but the odds of finding even a single message in a bottle are astronomical. Finding two from the same person? That’s just bananas. My family and I have found a few from the same senders, technically–like the Guinness messages in bottles–but they’re a big company, and they sent 150,000 of them! As for individual people, I knew of only one other person in the world who had found two messages in bottles from the same individual person. Until I heard from Continue reading →

A Message in a Bottle from the Sara II

30 Sunday Oct 2016

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Five days after I found Kelvin’s message in a bottle, I was hiking with my brother on an uninhabited island when I found what looked like a calendar in a bottle with writing on the inside. Check out how rocky the shore is! Can you spot the bottle?Chris and John Message in a Bottle 2011 2

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Mystery Message #6: Two Names in a Medicine Bottle

28 Tuesday Jun 2016

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It has been a while since I have posted one of the “Mystery Messages” that keep me up nights, wondering who on earth sent them and why.

You might remember The Case of the Crazy Dollar Bill, or the mystery message from Christopher aboard the Gripsholm, also known as the Sagafjord. You might recall The Mystery of the Beautiful Terrorist, or the Mystery Cameras I found washed ashore–one of which contained photos of a man I am hoping to identify. Continue reading →