Message in a Bottle, Found in the Baltic Sea, Is 100 Years Old

This week, a German fisherman pulled a 101-year-old message in a bottle out of the Baltic Sea. The message was written by a man named Richard Platz, and set to sea in 1913. It may be the oldest message in a bottle ever recovered, according to the Guardian. The International Maritime Museum was able to identify Platz’s granddaughter, Angela Erdmann, and sent her the message. When she saw the bottle and postcard inside, Erdmann said she was touched. "Tears rolled down my cheeks,” she told the Guardian. According to the Guiness Book of World Records, the oldest known message in a bottle is from 1914, a year after this one. But according to Matt Novak at Gizmodo, there’s an even earlier bottle that actually takes the prize—having been written and set afloat in 1906 and found by a man named Steve Thurber last year. continue