Message in a Bottle - An Epic Voyage.

Last year, a high school student named Corey Swearingen put a letter in a bottle, sealed it up, and dropped it in the Atlantic Ocean, off the Florida coast. It was kind of an experiment for school. In the letter, he appealed to whomever came across the bottle to contact him and let him know where in the world it showed up. Amazingly, someone did.About 16 months after the bottle was dropped, Swearingen's marine science teacher heard from someone in Ireland. The letter had made its way across the Atlantic Ocean and washed up on the shores of the Emerald Isle, found by a 17-year-old and his Dad while out for a stroll. In an interview with Florida Today, Swearingen said he never expected the message to be found.Can't blame him for pessimism. After all, the wine bottle, which, according to Swearingen, is being put up on display in an Irish pub, did face long odds. But it's hardly the first message in a bottle to survive a perilous journey.In 2009, a message in a bottle washed up on the shores of England. It had been tossed into the waters near the Bahamas nearly five years previous. Incredible, but that pales in comparison to a bottle sent by Emily Hwang. True, Hwang's bottle traveled "only" 1,735 miles from Seattle to Alaska, but it took an amazing 21 years to do so.There's even a case of a message in a bottle helping a family find a new life. In 1979, Dorothy and John Henry Peckham dropped a message in a bottle in the Pacific Ocean while on a cruise. Amazingly, the bottle found its way to Southeast Asia where it was picked up by 31-year-old Hoa Van Nguyen.Nguyen wrote back and began a correspondence that eventually led to the Peckhams helping to sponsor Nguyen and his family's immigration to the United States.Eat your heart out, email.

Source - Yahoo!I have always wanted to put a message in a bottle into the ocean...though I am landlocked. :PThat's just neat how the bottle can end up just about anywhere the currents will take it. And the chances of making landfall are slim anyways.

I don't see what was achieved.

ooooh....very nice/interesting... would like to know more about this 8)

Stanley Richards · #2I don't see what was achieved.

Absolutely nothing really.It's just neat how a single tiny bottle can end up on a shore hundreds of miles away.

... Not impressed.

Replying to #5

That's cool then.I am though. :)

All of the rich African princes and princesses should try this route of getting into the U.S. instead of trying to negotiate wire transfers and sending spam emails.

Replying to #7

Very much so! They would get so much further. :P

When i was teaching in a school near a beach, we always find these bottles washed up in the shores. We call it garbage. And if we ever find out who sent those like in the news, we would sue his ass because of his act.Anybody who throws bottles into the sea should be reported and arrested. Shame on him.
It might be an experiment in their country, but the moment it reaches our shores, its garbage to us. I hope the message inside the bottle was, " Sorry for this garbage, here is some money to help you clean it up" or "Pls recycle the bottle".

Stanley Richards · #5... Not impressed.

How aren't you impressed just imagine the journey that the bottle took over 21 years at sea and then the pure excitement of finding a letter from someone across the other side of the sea

This isn't new news though, a lot of people have done this in the past. Some, like the person on the article did it for fun, or an experiment. Whilst others have done it to fool a would be discoverer on an elaborate hoax, or even to find true love.

Stanley Richards · #2I don't see what was achieved.

Had we still been in the 1400's or even the 1500's this would help explain things like ocean currents. Also, the guy did it with the intention of finding out where the bottle might end up, if you didn't see into that then you've got more schooling to do :P

ace1o1 · #6That's cool then.I am though. :)

Good for you :)

Replying to #10

I'm guessing S.I.R.'s still in kindergarten & his sense of Romanticism & imagination isn't fully awakened yet.

I bet sending farts in a bottle would be cooler.

This is the 21st Century. If this were 1400s, yes, this would be amazing.

awesomebros · #12I bet sending farts in a bottle would be cooler.

That would be freaking hilarious! XD

Stanley Richards · #13This is the 21st Century. If this were 1400s, yes, this would be amazing.

Your argument is so full of FAIL!So what if it's the 21st century :PLet's say you were marooned in an island without your techno crap, how else can you signal for help without using old ways like sending off a message in a bottle or lighting a camp fire to make smoke signals?

I find it cool that it actually got across the ocean.

Stanley Richards · #13This is the 21st Century. If this were 1400s, yes, this would be amazing.

It does exactly the same whatever year its in, just because its 2010 it doesn't check in at an airport lol it still crosses an ocean.I think its quite cool really.

Cahos Rahne Veloza · #15Your argument is so full of FAIL!So what if it's the 21st century :PLet's say you were marooned in an island without your techno crap, how else can you signal for help without using old ways like sending off a message in a bottle or lighting a camp fire to make smoke signals?

All this has been done before. What's so amazing about this?

Replying to #18

Cause it just is. No other reason really.

Stanley Richards · #13This is the 21st Century. If this were 1400s, yes, this would be amazing.

IF you are wash up in an unknown island, 21st is the same as 1400 or even BC.