Message in bottle found by dog on beach in Europe after traveling over 4,000km across the Atlantic
The bottle with text written in French and dated 2024 washed up on the north-east coast of Scotland after being launched from a boat off Canada, according to the BBC.
The discovery was made on St Cyrus beach by one of 60-year-old local man Mike Scott's dogs during a routine walk.
“While I was walking, Maggie, my dog, smelled a bottle that had just been brought in by the waves. It was a very dark bottle with a cap and something inside,” said the local.
The man said he was “amazed” by the object's endurance after a journey of around 4,300 kilometers across the Atlantic Ocean.
After pulling out the note, Mike translated it and saw that it was signed by a certain “Annie Chiasson”. The message said the bottle had been thrown into the sea in August 2024 from a ferry plying between Prince Edward Island and the Madeleine Islands.
“So the little bottle survived two winters at sea, traveling from the east coast of Canada, across the North Atlantic, over Scotland and down into the North Sea for us to find at St Cyrus,” he said.
He then used social media to track down the author. “I found the woman on Facebook, my wife messaged her, but I haven't heard back,” Mike Scott concluded.
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