A Scottish fisherman has found the world's oldest message in a bottle. It is 98 years old, and was cast into the ocean by Captain C. Hunter Brown, a scientist at the Glasgow School of Navigation, who was studying the currents in the North Sea.
The bottle was one of 1,890 bottles released on June 10, 1914, and the 315th to be entered into Captain Brown's log, which is still kept and updated by Marine Scotland Science in Aberdeen.
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Some friends and I found a message in a bottle on about 23rd Sept 2013 washed up on Talia beach, South Australia. To our frustration, when we pushed the cork in to release the message, we found we couldn't read it as a little moisture had penetrated and faded the blue ink. However, the cork was clearly printed NORTON, and the bottle was a green wine bottle which had been in the sea long enough to grow a few barnacles. Can anyone shed any light on this?
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