Fascinating message in a bottle discoveries

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Queen Elizabeth I - Queen Elizabeth I of England thought messages in bottles were so important that she created the office of the royal "Uncorker of Ocean Bottles."

 

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Queen Elizabeth I - Under the Queen's rule, only the person with this title could open a bottle containing a message. A violation of this law was a capital crime.

 

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French mother - A French mother grieving the death of her son tossed a bottle containing some children's clothing, a message, and lilies into the English Channel.

 

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French mother - A few weeks later, two women found it in a beach in Kent, England. One of them, Karen Liebreich, wrote a book about it called 'The Letter in the Bottle
Book.' The mother and the women eventually met a few years later.

 

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Texas message - In 2009, a couple found a bottle at Padre Island National Seashore in Texas. The bottle contained a message saying "break bottle."

 

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Texas message - Inside was a postcard with instructions to be sent back to the Galveston Laboratory of the U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. Between 1962 and 1963, the laboratory released 7,863 bottles into the Gulf of Mexico to study the currents and how they affected shrimp.

 

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The Bottleman - Canadian fisherman Harold Hackett, also known as "The Bottleman," is passionate about sending messages in bottles.

 

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The Bottleman - He has thrown more than 4,800 bottles into the ocean, and received more than 3,000 responses.

 

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Ancient Greece - Greek philosopher Theophrastus is known to have sent the first message in a bottle back in 310 BCE.

 

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Ancient Greece -

The aim of the experiment was to prove a theory that the waters of the Atlantic Ocean created the Mediterranean Sea.