Discover the oldest sea message in the world

A Scottish captain found the bottle of postcards under the sea and the Guinness Book of World Records recognized it as the oldest sea message ever.

Guinness Book of World Records said, Andrew Leaper, captain of the fishing vessel 'Copious' , found the bottle from April 12 when he and fishermen dropped nets off the Shetland Islands in the North Sea. UK.

Leaper discovered the message contained in the bottle floating in the sea for 97 years and 309 days - longer than 5 years with the oldest sea message before.

The bottle, bearing the symbol 646B, contains a postcard. The content of the postcard suggested that the person who found it wrote the date and place on it and returned it to the 'Scottish Fisheries Commission director' to receive a 6-cent reward, Discovery said. Captain CH Brown at Glasgow Maritime School dropped the bottle into the sea on June 10, 1915.

This is one of 1,890 bottles for scientific research because they are specially designed to sink near the sea floor. All of these bottles contain the same postcard, please find the date and location and send it to the address in the postcard to receive a 6 cent reward.

Andrew Leaper holds the bottle containing the oldest message
and certificate of Guinness World Records Book.

'Those bottles helped early ocean experts in the early century collect important information to create models of ocean circulation in the area around Scotland ,' said Bill Turrel, an expert at Scottish Ecological and Ecological Environmental Research Agency, explained.

Turrell said he found many correct aspects in the conclusions of those oceanographers of the time.

'For example, they correctly deduced that the clockwise flow of water around our coasts. However, it was not until people created electronic devices in the 1960s that the scientific world correctly identified the standard ocean currents and the factors affecting those models, " Turrell said.

Interestingly, Mark Anderson, a friend of Leaper, found the message contained in a bottle originating from Scotland in 2006 while fishing on the same ship. Guinness Book of World Records recognizes this as the oldest message on the sea.

'An interesting coincidence is that a fishing boat from Shetland has found two messages that are the oldest in the world. It was like two lottery wins , " Leaper said.

So far, 315 bottles have been released since 1914. After 98 years, those bottles are still being returned to the Scottish Ocean Laboratory in its entirety.