Message in bottle arrives after 101 years

[dipsydoodle]

A message in a bottle tossed in the sea in Germany 101 years ago and believed to be the world's oldest has been presented to the sender's granddaughter, a museum said on Monday.

A fisherman pulled the beer bottle with the scribbled message out of the Baltic off the northern city of Kiel last month, said Holger von Neuhoff of the International Maritime Museum in the northern port city of Hamburg.

"This is certainly the first time such an old message in a bottle was found, particularly with the bottle intact," he said.

Researchers then set to work identifying the author and managed to track down his 62-year-old granddaughter Angela Erdmann, who lives in Berlin. "It was almost unbelievable," Erdmann told the German news agency DPA.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/08/message-in-bottle-arrives-after-101-years

[JI7]

1. the year just before the war

i hope they are able to figure out what the letter said.

[dipsydoodle]

2. If it had been the following year it might have said

Archduke Franz Ferdinand's death just a rumour . He's still alive so don't fuck up and start a world war.

[4_TN_TITANS]

3. That's just cool...

Thanks!

[MisterP]

4. did they find Atlantis,

like in that mediocre Lovecraft short story?