According to a report by Hong Kong's "East Net" on April 20, a marine biologist in Plymouth, England, threw stationery in some bottles into the sea more than a hundred years ago and asked people who saw him to contact him. As a result, one of the bottles crossed the Atlantic North Sea and was found in Germany last year. After expert verification, it was confirmed that it had been drifting in the sea for a total of 108 years and 138 days. Recently, it was recognized as the oldest letter in a bottle by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Marine biologist George Parker Bidder was reportedly studying the flow of seawater, dropping about 1,000 bottles in the sea between 1904 and 1906 with letters hidden in them.
As a result, most of the bottles were lost, except for the German island of Amrum, where a retired postman found one of the bottles on April 17 last year and, through the information on it, found the academic organization to which Bede belonged at the time.
Bede died in 1954 at the age of 91.
After examination, experts confirmed that the bottle was put into the sea on November 30, 1906, breaking the old record. The old record of the letter in the bottle went to sea in 1914, when the scientist was doing a similar study of water flow.