"I hope that someone gets my message in a bottle," goes the song, written by the Police, and for a man that sent out a message in a bottle in 1985, that's what finally happened.
"A year has passed since I wrote my note." Or in this case, about 28 years have passed since the man wrote his note.
The bottle with the message inside was found at the mouth of the Neretva River in the southern part of the Adriatic Sea in Croatia. The message inside was written by a Canadian man named Jonathon and addressed to a woman named Mary, according to Reuters. It contained no last names.
In the message, Jonathon said he made Mary a promise that he would write her. It's unclear why he chose that particular method of communication, rather than the (a little) more reliable mail system.
"Mary, you really are a great person," the letter begins. "I hope we can keep in correspondence."
"I said I would write," it concludes. "Your friend always, Jonathon, Nova Scotia, 1985."
It's unknown if Jonathon and Mary remained friends, or if she ever received any correspondence from him other than the bottle.
"I picked up the bottle and then I realized there was a letter," said Matea, who didn't provide a last name, a 23-year-old surfer who nearly threw the bottle away.
It's incredible that a bottle from Canada would make a 28-year journey all the way across the ocean to Nova Scotia. There's a 4,000-mile difference between Nova Scotia and Croatia.
The bottle traveled across the Atlantic Ocean, through the Strait of Gibraltar, across the Alboran Sea, around Italy and across the Mediterranean Sea and the Ionian Sea before finally washing up on the beach in Croatia, where it was found by a group of surfers who were participating in the cleanup of a local beach.
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