Researchers Receive Oldest ‘Message In A Bottle’ Ever

A message in a bottle tossed into the North Sea between 1904 and 1906 has been found. After washing up on a beach on the German island of Amrum, it's being called the oldest message in a bottle to ever be recovered.

According to The AP, inside the bottle a message with a postcard was found asking that it be sent to the Marine Biological Association of the U.K. The couple that found the bottle of course sent it back in.

Guy Baker, a spokesman for the group, said the bottle was one of some 1,000 released into the North Sea by researcher George Parker Bidder, who later became the association's president. The bottles were weighed down to float just above the sea bed, and used as part of a study into the movement of sea currents."

Anyone who returned it to the association, along with information about where and when they found the bottle, were also going to receive one shilling. An old shilling has been sent to the couple who found the bottle. Nice reward right?