World’s Oldest Message in a Bottle Found

One of the things I've always wanted to try is putting a message in a bottle and letting it sail across the lake/ocean and seeing who gets it and when. I'm not really sure why I haven't done it yet. Maybe because I don't have anything compelling to say in my message worthy enough to put in a bottle.

I'll hold out hope that I can be the person who finds a message one day. But in the mean time that lucky person... or rather persons goes to a couple who found a message in a bottle along the shoreline of a German beach.

According to the Telegraph, the "...bottle was thrown into the sea 108 years ago by British scientists..." It turns out that between 1904 and 1906 over 1,000 message in a bottles were sent out by George Parker Bidder, former president of the Marine Biological Association, to study the movement of deep sea currents. However, most of the bottles were already discovered decades and decades ago

So what did the letter exactly say? It instructed whoever found it to fill in information on how and where they found the bottle and to return the postcard to the Marine Biological Association in the U.K. and that a "shilling" would be sent... and that's exactly what the couple did.

The Association is currently trying to have the Guinness Book of World Records recognize it as the oldest message in a bottle. That record currently stands at 99 years old.