‘Mary you are a really great person. I said I would write. Jonathan’: Poignant message in a bottle turns up 28 years later – and 5,000 miles away
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | April 19, 2013 0:36It’s certainly a romantic gesture – putting a message in a bottle and throwing it into the sea in the hope it reaches its destination.
But perhaps it’s not the most practical way of expressing yourself, as one bottle took 28 years to be discovered – nearly 5,000 miles away.
In 1985 a man called Jonathon penned the note ‘Mary, you are really great person. I hope we can keep in correspondence. I said I would write. Your friend forever,Jonathon,Nova Scotia, 1985,’ tucked it into a bottle, and threw it into theAtlantic ocean.
Now, finally, it has been washed ashore and discovered inCroatia, almost 8,000 kilometres (4,971 miles) away.
The message, written in blue ink with a ball-point pen was still intact because it was plastic coated, and found by 23-year-old Croatian Matea Medak Rezic, Yahoo reported.
‘The bottle was among the rubbish that winter rains have brought to the shore,’ Rezic told AFP.
Ms Rezic, who found the sentimental note as she helped with a beach clean-up near the AdriaticportofPloce, nearDubrovnik, is now appealing for the mystery pair to come forward.
She has posted a picture of the note and bottle on Facebook, writing: ‘Message in a Bottle! From Canadato the NeretvaRiverestuary for 28 years!!’ The Provincereported.
If the bottle was thrown fromNova Scotia, it could have travelled across the Atlantic and into theMediterranean Sea.
To reach the Adriatic Sea, it is possible that it could have gone through theStraitofGibralter.
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