From the August 30th Side Show "98-year-okd message in bottle sets world record" by Eric Pfeiffer.
A Scottish fisherman, Andrew Leaper, 43, found a bottle off Scortland's northern coast and, according to the Guinness people, this old messgae in abottle beat the previous oldest by five years at 98. By coincidence, the previous record-holder was also found by the fishing boat Copious out of Scotland.
In 1914, Scottish Captain C. H. Brown of the Glasgow School of Navigation released 1,890 bottles as part of an government experiment to map underwater currents in the seas around Scotland.
Each bottle had a postcard asking the finder to record details of where it was found and promised a reward of six pence. Sadly, the reward is no longer in effect.
Only 350 of those bottles were found, including this one.
Sting and Police Would Be So Proud. --Cooter
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