Wilgrove
03-12-2008, 01:53
Message in bottle tossed off NJ in '69 found in NC
The Associated Press
NORTH HALEDON, N.J. A message in a bottle tossed into the ocean off Barnegat Bay has turned up in North Carolina - 39 years later. The note was sealed in a Schaefer beer bottle. It was dated Aug. 17, 1969 and read: "If found notify the North Haledon Fire Co. 2."
Mark Ciarmello and his 3-year-old daughter found the bottle along a beach in Corolla, N.C., in October. That's about 400 miles from where it was released.
The Downingtown, Pa., resident said he got on his cell phone, called North Haledon and e-mailed photos of the bottle to the firefighters.
No one is sure who tossed the bottle. But firefighters suspect it was during one of the many fishing trips that they used to take years ago.
Information from: The Record of Bergen County, http://www.northjersey.com
Link (http://www.charlotteobserver.com/weird/story/389558.html)
So, who has put messages in a bottle before and send it out to sea? I've thought about it when I was younger, but I never did it. I wonder what would happen if I did it now.
The Associated Press
NORTH HALEDON, N.J. A message in a bottle tossed into the ocean off Barnegat Bay has turned up in North Carolina - 39 years later. The note was sealed in a Schaefer beer bottle. It was dated Aug. 17, 1969 and read: "If found notify the North Haledon Fire Co. 2."
Mark Ciarmello and his 3-year-old daughter found the bottle along a beach in Corolla, N.C., in October. That's about 400 miles from where it was released.
The Downingtown, Pa., resident said he got on his cell phone, called North Haledon and e-mailed photos of the bottle to the firefighters.
No one is sure who tossed the bottle. But firefighters suspect it was during one of the many fishing trips that they used to take years ago.
Information from: The Record of Bergen County, http://www.northjersey.com
Link (http://www.charlotteobserver.com/weird/story/389558.html)
So, who has put messages in a bottle before and send it out to sea? I've thought about it when I was younger, but I never did it. I wonder what would happen if I did it now.