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escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17895 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 4 Gender: Female |
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Tsk. Sutton, you are the laziest stalker EVER.  |
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| BlackRiverFalls I wear a fez now.
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| Posted: 11-08-2010 10:44 Post subject: |
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Wo! Ho! Ho~! You are popular 'scarg.
All i could ever get out of him was rejection letters   |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21362 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 14-08-2010 09:55 Post subject: |
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| rynner2 wrote: | Message in a bottle to a lost son found on a Kent beach led to a seven-year journey to trace the mother who wrote it
By Karen Liebreich
Last updated at 8:58 AM on 30th July 2010 |
It's definitely the silly season; two weeks after the Mail published the above story, now the Guardian prints it too!
I found a message in a bottle
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/14/karen-liebreich-letter-in-a-bottle
Students of journalism (aka trainee reporters) may care to compare and contrast. The rest of us can just get on with our lives!  |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17895 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 4 Gender: Female |
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| BlackRiverFalls wrote: | Wo! Ho! Ho~! You are popular 'scarg.
All i could ever get out of him was rejection letters |
You've either got it or you ain't. |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21362 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 14-06-2011 20:03 Post subject: |
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Walker finds a message in a bottle on Cornish beach
A woman from west Cornwall is hoping to trace the authors of a message left in a bottle washed up on a Cornish beach.
Teresa Boulden discovered the bottle while out walking on Praa Sands beach near Penzance last month.
The faded message suggests it was written by two Belgians. Mrs Boulden believes the bottle was thrown into the sea from an island off Brittany.
Two years ago another walker on Praa Sands beach spotted a separate message in a bottle.
Mrs Boulden who regularly uses Praa Sands beach, said: "I picked the bottle up and tipped the water out.
"There was a slip of paper sticking out. It was soaking wet but I managed to unravel it. The first word was 'Bonjour' and I thought that's exciting."
Mrs Boulden took the bottle home and dried out the message.
Although it is hard to read, she said it is possible to make out parts of the letter.
"There was a message saying they were from Belgium, staying on an island just off the coast of Brittany which was a mile wide."
Praa Sands beach was in the news a couple of years ago when Martin Leslie, a sector manager for the local coastguard, spotted another message in a bottle.
That one contained a romantic letter written in French, professing sadness at the end of an affair, along with a lock of hair.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-13759852
EDIT: Earlier Praa Sands story here:
http://www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=918982#918982 |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21362 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 22-01-2012 12:53 Post subject: |
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Schoolboy's message in a bottle turns up five months later on Danish beach
By Leon Watson
Last updated at 1:57 PM on 21st January 2012
A message in a bottle hurled into the sea by a British schoolboy has turned up 400 miles away in Denmark.
Noah Gill, 10, received a surprise e-mail from school children last week after they discovered the slime-covered bottle on a beach in Lemvig.
The bottle had slowly bobbed across the North Sea for five months before washing up on the Danish coastline.
And after finding the bottle, the Danish pupils quickly fired off the email to Noah to tell him how far his message had got.
Noah, from Hull, East Yorkshire, had launched the glass bottle into the sea off the Humberside coast five months ago during a family trip to Spurn Point.
But he never expected it to get any further than Withernsea - just 15 miles north.
The Bricknell Primary School pupil said: 'When it turned up, I thought "Wow". It was something fun to do.
'I wrote what I liked doing on the note and what I did and which school I go to. I threw it in the water at Spurn Point.
'I sort of forgot about it. I never thought it would go very far. Then a headmaster in Denmark got in touch with my dad and said he had found my bottle.
'I did not think that would happen. It’s lucky they got back in touch otherwise we would never have known where it got to.'
Noah's father Lawrence Gill said: 'We like to go to Spurn to spend time, we love it.
'Last August, we were thinking about what to do while we were there. And we thought we could do a message in a bottle.
'Noah wrote on it his name, age, school, where he lived and what he likes doing and our e-mail address.
'We found a glass bottle and sealed the top with wax so water would not get in it.
'Noah threw it out when the tide was going out so it had a chance of getting somewhere rather than just Immingham Docks.
'I think his mum and I were more excited than he was when we heard from Denmark.
'After we had thrown it in, I did wonder sometimes where it was, and thought it had probably ended up at Withernsea.'
The headteacher of the Danish school got in touch with Noah's family, as well as Bricknell Primary School head teacher Tim Attwater.
Mr Attwater said: 'We got the e-mail from the head, who said it was quite a timely find for his pupils because they were doing a project about what they could find on the beach.
'We got back in touch by e-mail, rather than putting a message in a bottle as it is much quicker.'
Pupils at the school have now sent their Danish counterparts pictures of them in uniform as well as telling them about the school and what they get up to.
Mr Attwater added: 'We said we would love to keep in touch. It is a really nice opportunity to make links.
'We try wherever we can to find links with schools in other countries. It is really important that children understand their place in the wider world.
'It is about showing them what life is about elsewhere so they develop a grasp of the world.
'It will be nice for the children to find out about the Danish schools curriculum and how their school day works.'
The pupils are now anxiously waiting to hear from their new pen pals.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2089801/Schoolboys-message-bottle-turns-months-later-Danish-beach.html#ixzz1kBebIUpV |
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| kmossel Give in
Yeti Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Total posts: 94 Location: San Francisco Gender: Male |
| Posted: 31-08-2012 02:38 Post subject: World record as message in bottle found after 98 years |
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| Quote: | World record as message in bottle found after 98 years near Shetland
A Scottish skipper has set a new world record after finding a message in a bottle 98 years after it was released.
Andrew Leaper's discovery beat the previous record for the longest time a bottle has been adrift at sea by more than five years.
And he found the bottle while skippering the same fishing boat which had set the previous record, the Shetland-based vessel Copious.
Mr Leaper said: "It was an amazing coincidence."
The find has been confirmed as a new record by Guinness World Records.
The drift bottle - containing a postcard which promised a reward of six pence to the finder - was released in June 1914 by Captain CH Brown of the Glasgow School of Navigation.
It was in a batch of 1,890 scientific research bottles which were specially designed to sink to help map the currents of the seas around Scotland when they were returned. Only 315 of them have been found.
Mr Leaper, 43, who found the bottle east of Shetland, explained: "As we hauled in the nets I spotted the bottle neck sticking out and I quickly grabbed it before it fell back in the sea.
"It was very exciting to find the bottle and I couldn't wait to open it.
"It's like winning the lottery twice."
'Immensely proud'
He said his friend Mark Anderson, who had set the previous record in 2006 on board the same vessel, was "very unhappy that I have topped his record".
"He never stopped talking about it - and now I am the one who is immensely proud to be the finder of the world record message in a bottle."
A spokesperson for Guinness World Records said: "We are pleased to hear that the same vessel helped to break the Guinness World Record for oldest message in a bottle twice.
"This is a fascinating record, both historically and scientifically.
"We hope that future expeditions will retrieve more of these treasured messages from the sea."
Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead added: "Scotland has a long and proud tradition in marine science, stretching from these pioneers of ocean research in the 19th and early 20th Century, to the cutting edge marine studies that take place in our labs today.
"The story of scientific drift bottles is a fascinating one and harks back to an area when we were only beginning to understand the complexities of the seas.
"It's amazing that nearly 98 years on bottles are still being returned to the Marine Laboratory - and in such fantastic condition.
"With many bottles still unreturned there is always the chance in the coming years that a Scottish drift bottle will once again break the record."
The bottle, and Mr Leaper's Guinness World Records certificate, have been donated to the Fetlar Interpretative Centre in Shetland. |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-19422354 |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21362 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 22-02-2013 09:21 Post subject: |
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Mystery message in a bottle discovered on Falmouth's Swanpool Beach
2:31pm Thursday 21st February 2013 in News .
Strange scrolls stuck inside a bottle were discovered on Swanpool Beach in Falmouth yesterday.
The mystery messages were spotted by Pip Carlton-Barnes, from hotels association Visit Falmouth, who found the whiskey bottle filled with tightly rolled red paper left on a wall.
“There was no-one around and we waited for a long while to see if anyone came for them but no-one did,” Pip said.
“On closer inspection it was clear that the bottle had not been washed up or even spent any time in the water.
“This is rather a mystery as why would someone go to all this trouble only to leave without actually sending the bottle to sea?”
Suggestions for the true nature of the bottle have ranged from it being a "geocache", to a creative arts project, to a message in a bottle that just never found its way into the sea.
“We were going to throw it in but thought the person who created such beautiful notes should do it really,” Pip said.
For now, the bottle remains tightly sealed and the staff at Swanpool Beach Cafe are looking after it.
http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/10244060.Mystery_message_in_a_bottle_discovered_on_Swanpool_Beach/?ref=mr
I blame students!  But with the current sourh-easterly winds, anything thrown in the sea at Swanpool beach would very quickly be washed straight back ashore! |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21362 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 20-03-2013 23:30 Post subject: |
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Mystery of Falmouth messages in a bottle revealed
2:30pm Wednesday 20th March 2013 in News
By Greg Fountain, Reporter/Photographer .
Despite theories that the empty whiskey bottle filled with tightly wound scrolls was a creative arts project or a so-called “geocache” - hidden for others to find in a kind of high-tech Easter Egg Hunt - the messages were in fact written by a group of schoolgirls.
Hannah Woods, aged 16, said she and her friends had created the message in a bottle “as a fun activity” at February half term, but although they did put it into the sea it was discovered by Pip Carlton-Barnes and the team at Visit Falmouth just a day later.
“We’re awfully flattered with all the interest our little experiment has gotten,” Hannah, from Truro, said.
“It’s a shame the bottle didn’t get very far - not across the Atlantic as we’d dreamt - but yes, we did put it in the water.”
The contents of the letters tightly rolled into scrolls by Hannah and her friends Mo Fox (from Feock), Rhiannon Wardle (from Truro), Chimé Rainbow (from Penzance) and Grace Perryman (from Truro), remain a mystery but they did include “a little bit about ourselves, why we were sending the message in the bottle and what we hoped it would achieve,” Hannah said.
She said: “It was a lovely story and I am pleased to have been a part of it.
“I am gld that they are happy I gave it the right end. The contents remain a mystery and I hope one day we hear that it has reached across the Atlantic.”
Hannah said: “We’re glad that it's been thrown back in the water because now it will remain a mystery and hopefully it’ll have the journey we hoped for.”
http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/10300797.Mystery_of_Falmouth_messages_in_a_bottle_revealed/?ref=mr
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
Joined: 18 Sep 2001 Total posts: 9109 Location: Not far from Bedford Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 20-03-2013 23:43 Post subject: |
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| rynner2 wrote: | | “We’re awfully flattered with all the interest our little experiment has gotten,” Hannah, from Truro, said. |
'Gotten'? Sounds like she's not from Truro.  |
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EnolaGaia Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Total posts: 1304 Location: USA Gender: Male |
| Posted: 12-09-2013 14:14 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Century-old message in a bottle found in Tofino
COURTENAY, B.C. — He says it’s the neatest thing he’s every found.
A Courtenay man made the discovery of a lifetime when he came across a bottle containing a message dating all the way back to 1906.
Steve Thurber says he was walking along Schooner’s Cove in Tofino on Monday when he found the old bottle lying in the sand. It was in an area recently excavated as part of a Parks Canada invasive species restoration project.
The bottle was sealed and had a note inside.
Thurber did not want to open or break the bottle, but was able to make out through the glass that the note was dated September 29, 1906 and was signed by Earl Willard, who was sailing from San Francisco to Bellingham aboard the Steamer Rainier when he threw the bottle into the ocean, 76 hours in to the voyage.
It even lists Willard’s address in Bellingham, which is now the Railway museum.
“Maybe there was only one [bottle] that the guy sent out and I found it. It is like one in a billion chances,” says Thurber.
After researching online records, Thurber says his message in a bottle may be the oldest in the world – with the next oldest dating back to 1914.
“I guess it is a chance thing that you find something that somebody sent out into the water. I mean, even if it was a year later or ten years later, but a hundred years later is just unreal,” says Thurber.
SOURCE: http://globalnews.ca/news/834921/century-old-message-in-a-bottle-found-in-tofino/
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21362 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 12-09-2013 16:22 Post subject: |
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| Spooky that this thread has popped up again. Just yesterday I posted on Lone Coastguard about a book I'd just started. Called Cast Adrift, it's about crime on the high seas (and elsewhere), and another element of the story is that a woman adrift on a raft is sending out messages, not in bottles but in plastic ducks! |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17931 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 28-09-2013 00:02 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Message in a bottle sparks Durham Cathedral graves probe
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-24304142
The bottle found at Durham Cathedral is examined
Experts at Durham University examined the bottle under ultraviolet light
A faded message found in a bottle buried 100 years ago inside Durham Cathedral has sparked a search for a mystery grave.
The corked bottle was found during the relaying of flagstones near the tomb of the Venerable Bede.
Inside was a handwritten note on a 1913 theatre flyer, with the names of three men who claim to have opened a grave in the cathedral's Galilee Chapel.
Experts are now sifting through records of work done in the chapel at the time.
Blue pencil
The bottle, discovered on Tuesday, was handed to scientists at Durham University, who examined it under ultraviolet light.
Writing on the back of the flyer found inside the bottle
Faded writing was found on the back of the theatre flyer
Once opened, they found a printed flyer from the Globe Theatre - now the Gielgud Theatre in London - dated 1913.
On the reverse was a handwritten note with the names of three men who say they opened an unidentified grave on 11 May 1913.
Staff at the cathedral are now trying to identify which grave may have been disturbed and why, although they are sure the Venerable Bede's remains were not disturbed.
Durham Cathedral archaeologist Norman Emery said: "On the back of the flyer someone has written in blue pencil the names of three men and something which looks like a mason's mark.
"There is another word, which looks like 'grave' and below that 'this grave was opened on May 13, 1913.'
"It is intriguing to actually find under the floor a bottle recording something that appears to have happened to a grave in that chapel.
"But unfortunately it doesn't reveal what they did, whose grave it was or why they disturbed it or to what extent they disturbed it.
"We know of a volume that was written in the late 19th Century, which recorded the inscriptions on graves in the Galilee Chapel.
"So if we go through that we might be able to match it with graves that are there now and see if we find that there is a missing grave marker.
"That might give us a clue to whose grave this was." |
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| Azrael Grey Joined: 09 Sep 2009 Total posts: 9 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 30-09-2013 22:54 Post subject: |
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| That Durham story sounds like the setup for an M R James story. |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 30-09-2013 23:54 Post subject: |
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It all sounds like a deliberate mystification. Why a bottle? Why a theatrical flyer? Why, above all, a Mason's mark?
Our attention is drawn to the bottle and its contents but the questions of its position under the floor, depth? in soil? in a void? are not addressed.
The spidery markings look interesting but we could do with some light on them. After a century, we might also expect the names of the men to be revealed, if light is the issue here.   |
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