Bottle News.

[Tony Morcom]

That's brilliant Davey. It reminds me of that screensaver that was doing the rounds about 15 years ago called Johnny Castaway.

[happy daze john in oz]

We had a bit in today's apare about the bottle. I have concluded this, the bottle was put into the channel with the intentions of rteaching the Channel Isalnds. It ends up in Oz some five months later. There is an obvious answer, the post office was involved. Who else could have got the wrong address and taken so long to get it there?

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi John Albert.
There must be thousands of bottles floating around the oceans of the world with messages from lovesick seamen, with all the bottles I threw overboard I hope the phone doesn't start ringing of the hook, the wife would never believe it was all those years ago.
Cheers Des
PS Have a look around the beaches in the Gower I threw many a bottle over the side there.

[Colin Pook]

Hi John. I did, and I have. The location was the English Channel, and the reply came from the chief Officer who came up behind me and said 'YOU IGNORANT LITTLE BAR-STEWARD' , if that bottle washes up on the beach where my daughter plays, and she cuts her foot on it, I'll have your guts for garters. Some people have no sense of adventure have they?
Regards
Colin.

[Keith at Tregenna]

Somali pirates caught by message in a bottle:

When Italian container ship Montecristo was boarded by pirates off the Somali coast, the crew knew they had to get a distress signal out.

About 620 miles from Somalia, with no means of phone or radio communication, they placed a message in a bottle and threw it out through a porthole into the sea.

Just hours later the message was picked up by a Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel, the RFA Fort Victoria.

More at LINK: BBC News - Somali pirates caught by message in a bottle

[Gulliver]

Somali pirates caught by message in a bottle:....

After reading that article it looks like we've got another word for our nautical dictionary- Sizzler = an armoured area aboard ship where the crew can avoid capture by pirates.(!)

Gulliver

[Colin Hawken]

I dropped a bottle over the side somewhere between Madeira and Capetown back in the early 50s. The message,as I remember,was "To whoever finds this bottle if they inform the "Old Codgers" in the Daily Mirror,I will pay £5 to the charity of the Old Codgers choice. Who else besides me can remember who the Old Codgers in the Daily Mirror were? I'm still waiting for a reply from the finder of the bottle.