The Oldest Message In A Bottle Was Found…

It was sent for an unusual reason…

The message was over 100 years old and the sender was kind of clever.  When you think of these types of things one may imagine pirates or someone on a tropical island.  However, in the early 1900s one marine biologist had something else in mind:

A postcard placed in a bottle and thrown into the North Sea more than a century ago has been found and returned to the scientific institution responsible for its distribution. Rather than a love letter or an SOS to the world, it is part of one of the longest running scientific experiments in the world.

From 1904-1906 George Parker Bidder of the Marine Biological Association of the U.K. (MBA) placed 1020 postcards addressed to the institution in bottles and had them released into the North Sea. The cards offered a reward of a shilling to anyone who found one and posted it back with information.

So it was a science experiment.  Too bad it took so long to find out any of the results.

Let’s find out more on its discovery and check out an informational video on page 2

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