The Bottle’s Incredible Journey
Inside the bottle was a message printed on a small card. It read:
> “Please state where and when this card was found, and then return it to the Director of the Fishery Board for Scotland.”
The card was signed and dated — 10th June 1926.
It turned out the bottle had been released into the sea as part of a scientific experiment to study ocean currents and fish migration patterns. Back then, scientists from the Scottish Fishery Board dropped over 1,800 bottles into the North Sea. Each one carried a unique number and a small promise — whoever found the bottle and returned it would receive a small reward.
Andrew’s bottle was one of those long-lost experiments. It had traveled through storms, currents, and decades of changing seas before finding its way back to shore — into the hands of another fisherman, 85 years later.
