{"id":1062,"date":"2012-09-28T15:58:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T14:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/up\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/28\/message-found-in-bottle-after-98-years-sets-world-record\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T14:29:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T13:29:45","slug":"message-found-in-bottle-after-98-years-sets-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/message-found-in-bottle-after-98-years-sets-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Message found in bottle after 98 years sets world record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A North Sea fisherman has set a world record by scooping up a bottle that has carried a message in the ocean for almost 98 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bottle, found east of the Shetland Island off Scotland’s northern coast, was among 1,890 released all at one time in a government experiment to map the undercurrents of the seas around Scotland, the BBC reports. Only 315 have been found. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fisherman Andrew Leaper, skipper of the Copious, found the bottle \u2014 which was set adrift in 1914 \u2014 in his nets in April.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guinness World Records confirmed on Thursday that it is the oldest message in a bottle ever recovered, beating a previous record by five years, the BBC says. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Oddly, the old record was set by Leaper’s friend, Mark Anderson, who had found his bottle in 2006 while on board the same vessel, the Copious, the BBC reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leaper says Anderson is “very unhappy that I have topped his record.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“He never stopped talking about it — and now I am the one who is immensely proud to be the finder of the world-record message in a bottle,” Leaper says, according to the BBC.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inside each bottle, a postcard asks the finder to record details of the discovery and promises a reward of a sixpence, the AP reports. Unfortunately for Leaper, the coin no longer exists.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Scottish government says adrift bottle 646B was released on June 10, 1914, by Capt. C. H. Brown of the Glasgow School of Navigation, as part of a batch of 1,890 scientific research bottles specially designed to sink downward and float close to the seabed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“By tracking the location of returned bottles, it was possible for the undercurrents of the seas around Scotland to be mapped out for the first time,” the government said in a statement.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It says the water-tight glass bottles contained a postcard asking the finder to record the date and location of the discovery and return it to the “Director of the Fishery Board for Scotland” \u2013 with a reward of sixpence available. It says Brown’s original log is now held by Marine Scotland Science in Aberdeen and is updated each time a discovery is made.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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