In the past, the idea of launching a Message in the bottle it was very common because of movies, especially pirates. Regarding this theme, a rare recent case happened: the owner himself found his message after 37 years of being thrown into the sea, in the USA. Check out what he left as a message when he was just 10 years old.
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Troy Heller, the man who wrote the message and found it almost 38 years later, wrote this message when he was just 10 years old and placed it on a Pepsi bottle to be dropped into the Atlantic Ocean during a trip to Vero Beach, Florida, with the intention of someone unknown finding its message. Troy was born in upstate Kentucky and there were no beaches for him to deliver the bottled message, so he waited his trip to fulfill his wish.
The bottle was found on November 13 last year, on a beach called Sebastian, also in Florida, approximately 20 kilometers from where it was thrown into the sea 37 years ago.
“I just thought I'd throw it in the ocean and see where it went. It's amazing that she finally found her way back," Heller told American TV.
The bottle was actually spotted by teachers in the area who were cleaning up the beach after Hurricane Nicole hit the area. The teachers, despite finding the bottle, did not keep it and handed it over to the Carrmax family.
“We feel really special to have found two wonderful teachers picking up the trash after the hurricane,” said Katie Carrmax, who was walking next to the men.
After Katie opened the bottle, they read the message which contained Troy's name, age, address and phone number at the time she wrote it. So, she went on a quest to find her author, as at the end of the letter, Troy wrote “PS, whoever finds this, call or write me”.
Katie's mission
Katie had a very difficult mission – to find the author of the message, since the data found in the message was out of date. However, even with all the difficulty and having to exercise the work of an internet detective, Katie managed to find Troy's contact. Then they sent a photo of their letter in the bottle.
“As soon as I saw the photo, I remembered writing. I was surprised the bottle didn't break,” said Troy.
After contact, Katie sent the bottled message to its owner by mail, which, as soon as it arrived, was framed. With the paper, a photo of when she was a child on the day she threw the bottle into the sea was included.
