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* Ever wonder about this phenomenon?
* Why don’t the bottles break or sink in storms?
* Is this really a way to communicate? Better than social media?

It may be a little imprecise since there is no way to predict in which direction they may go. The speed of a bottle can vary from zero to 100 miles a day.

- The longest bottle voyage was launched by a German scientific expedition in 1929 in the Indian Ocean. Its message said "report where you found it and throw it back in." Going east to the Atlantic then back to the Indian ocean and then it made it ashore in Australia in 1935. It covered 16,000 miles in 2,447 days …moving an average of 6 miles a day.

- In 1953 a bottle found in Tasmania 37 years after it was dropped by an Australian soldier who died in 1918 (his mother recognized his handwriting).

- In 1954 eighteen bottles were salvaged form a sunk ship 250 years earlier.

- An SOS has not worked either…as one that was found in Maine in1 944 coming from the USS Beatty, a destroyer torpedoed off Gibraltar in 1943.En savoir plus