She-ra Posted April 7, 2015 #1 Share Posted April 7, 2015 More than 100 years ago, a young German man named Richard Platz stuffed a message into a brown beer bottle, then tossed the bottle into the Baltic Sea during a nature hike. Platz, the 20-year-old son of a baker, had no way of knowing that his message would survive two world wars, the Great Depression and the Cold War — not to mention more than a century of brutal winters and ocean storms. Read more here: http://www.livescience.com/44709-message-in-a-bottle-worlds-oldest.html?cmpid=514627_20150407_43090376&adbid=10152669226926761&adbpl=fb&adbpr=30478646760 I now have The Police song stuck in my head I thought this was very cool 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMS Dreadnought Posted April 7, 2015 #2 Share Posted April 7, 2015 A great find & fantastic that it was given to his Granddaughter 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.ZZ. Posted April 7, 2015 #3 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Read more here: http://www.livescien...bpr=30478646760 I now have The Police song stuck in my head I thought this was very cool Great story! (Now I can't get that song out of my head either!) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
She-ra Posted April 7, 2015 Author #4 Share Posted April 7, 2015 A great find & fantastic that it was given to his Granddaughter I know right?!?! Wasn't that sweet? She had never met him either so it makes it even more special I bet zz- message in the boooooootle, yea! I'm still singing it in my head over here! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toast Posted April 7, 2015 #5 Share Posted April 7, 2015 (edited) And the bottle has been found by a German fisherman, named Konrad Fischer (Fischer=fisherman). Hooray! Edited April 7, 2015 by toast 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
She-ra Posted April 7, 2015 Author #6 Share Posted April 7, 2015 (edited) And the bottle has been found by a German fisherman, named Konrad Fischer (Fischer=fisherman). Hooray! OH! I didn't catch that!! How cool is that Great addition to the story. Love it!PS: My husband is 100% German. I should have caught that! Edited April 7, 2015 by She-ra 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KariW Posted April 7, 2015 #7 Share Posted April 7, 2015 What a great story! I bet his granddaughter has it mounted someplace special in her home. Its so amazing that the bottle was in such great shape after all this time. What a wonderful heirloom to pass down to her children and grandchildren! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toast Posted April 7, 2015 #8 Share Posted April 7, 2015 I will be back in Hamburg next month and will then take an image of the bottle at the museum and post it here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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