On November 30, 1906, George Parker Bidder dropped a bottle from a boat into the North Sea. The weighted glass bottle sank almost to the sea floor, then bobbed along for 108 years, 4 months and 18 days until its journey finally ended when Marianne Winkler, a retired postal worker on holiday on Amrum Island, one of Germany’s North Frisian Islands, found it washed up on shore in 2015. Though she didn’t know it at the time, the message in a bottle was the oldest ever recovered, and earned Winkler a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records this week.
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