108-Year-Old Message Bottle Found In Germany
A 108-year-old message bottle was found in Germany and is now declared as the world’s oldest according to Guinness World Records.
According to Pix 11, a former German postal worker named Marianne Winkler found a message in a bottle in an island in Germany called Amrun.
Now, the Guinness World Records confirms that it is really the oldest with an age of 108 years, four months, and 18 days.
The Plymouth Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association (MBA) said that it broke the record of the 99 years and 43 days old one in the Guinness World Records.
It is said in reports that the message bottle was thrown together with the 1020 message bottles that were thrown off the coast of England between 1904 and 1906 by George Parker Bidder.
it is also said that it was part of Bidder’s experiment allowing him to establish an east-to-west flow in the North Sea’s deep-sea current.
Guy Baker of the MBA said as quoted in GMA News Online:
“The postcard asked the finder to fill out information about where the bottle was found, if it was trawled up, what the boat’s name was, and asked once the postcard was completed for it to be returned to a George Parker Bidder in Plymouth for a reward of one shilling.”
Many of these message bottles have sunk to the bottom of the south North Sea in England. Some went to mainland Europe.
MBA sent a thank you letter and an old shilling piece to the finder of the message bottle.
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