Man Put a Message In A Bottle 42 Years Ago And It Just Surfaced

Maybe you've always wanted to put a message in a bottle and see how far it could travel before you hear anything about it. I've always wanted to do that, and now probably more than ever before. Recently someone who put a message in a bottle in Germany in 1973, just washed up in New York in 2015.

The Blaze reports that Scottish fisherman John Souter placed a message in a bottle 42 years ago on a fishing trip in 1973 when he was sailing with his father and late brother-in-law. This bottle just traveled 8,000 miles over 42 years.

The 66-year-old wrote the message on a torn out page of an edition of the fishing almanac and tossed it into the ocean.

“I remember doing it,” he told Mail Online. “I was aboard my father’s fishing boat. I tore a bit of paper out of an old fishing almanac on board and wrote my name, address and the date on it, before putting it inside an old Hay’s lemonade bottle and throwing it into the sea.”"

The message was finally discovered by Michael Scholz on Jones Beach during a recent trip, 42 years later.