What Happened Next
After reporting the find, Andrew returned the bottle to the Marine Scotland Science Laboratory, where it now sits as part of a display about historic marine research.
He later said that pulling that bottle from the sea felt “like opening a time capsule” — a silent voice from another era, still carrying its mission across generations.
The story spread across the world, covered by BBC, CNN, and The Guardian. People were fascinated not just by the age of the bottle, but by what it symbolized:
The persistence of human curiosity — and how something small and forgotten could still reach someone, even after nearly a century adrift.
It was proof that even in a world of technology and instant messages, some stories are worth waiting 85 years to be told.
