message in a bottle

 

The 58-year-old Harold Hackett has sent out around 4,800 bottles from near his home on Prince Edward Island, Canada

The first recorded messages in bottles were released around 310 BC by the Ancient Greek philosopher Theophrastus, as part of an experiment to show that the Mediterranean Sea was formed by the inflowing Atlantic Ocean

A Scottish skipper, Andrew Leaper,
has set a new world record after finding a message in a bottle 98 years after it was released.

He beat the previous record for the longest time a bottle has been adrift at sea by more than five years.