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World Record Message in Bottle Found After 98 Years

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03 Sep 2012 31 views
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World Record Message in Bottle Found After 98 Years
A Scottish skipper has set a new world record after finding a message in a bottle 98 years after it was released. Not only that, he found the bottle while skippering the same fishing boat which had set the previous record, the Shetland-based vessel Copious.

A Scottish skipper has set a new world record after finding a message in a bottle 98 years after it was released.

Not only that, he found the bottle while skippering the same fishing boat which had set the previous record, the Shetland-based vessel Copious.

The bottle was one of hundreds released by the Scottish government in order to document the sea currents around the UK.

(READ the story in the BBC)

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