Modern Mysteries

5 fishermen die after drinking contents of mystery bottles found at sea

By T.K. Randall
July 10, 2024 ·  23 comments

Suffice to say, don't drink this... Image Credit: Pixabay / un-perfekt According to reports, the fishermen - who had been part of a crew of six that had set sail from Tangalle Fisheries Harbor back at the start of June on a trip spanning several days - came across a number of mysterious bottles in the sea around 320 nautical miles off the coast of Sri Lanka.

For reasons known only to themselves, the men not only started to drink the unidentified contents of the bottles, but had even distributed some of them to other fishing boats in the area as well.

Before long, several of the men had become extremely ill and four of them died very quickly.

A fifth later succumbed to the same fate a few days later.The sixth and only remaining crew member was evacuated to hospital and survived.

It remains unclear what was actually in the bottles or why the men would drink the contents, but efforts are now underway to warn other crews not to ingest whatever is contained inside them.

It's possible that the crew believed that the bottles contained alcohol that was still good to drink.

Whatever the case, it goes without saying that drinking the contents of random bottles you happen to find floating in the ocean or elsewhere is never a good idea.

Source: Independent | Comments (23)

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