Over a century again, a British scientist threw a message in a bottle into the ocean, and a German couple just found it.

They didn't know how old it was at first.

The Telegraph reports that, when the holidaying Winklers followed the instructions and broke the bottle, they discovered a postcard requesting—in three different languages—that anybody who found it provide a little information about where the bottle landed and send it back to the UK’s Marine Biological Association. (In exchange for a shilling.) They’d just become part of a century-old experiment... (Pictorial.Jezebel)

They did actually try to get the message out of the bottle without breaking it, but that just wasn't happening.

It turned out the bottle was one of 1,020 released into the North Sea between 1904 and 1906 by George Parker Bidder, a former president of the association.

Bidder released the bottles as part of a project to find out about deep sea currents.

The bottles were specially designed to float just above the sea bed, so they would be carried by the currents deep below the surface. (Telegraph)

They're waiting on confirmation from the Guiness Book of World Records, but they believe this is the oldest message in a bottle ever found. The current record holder was a 99-years-old bottle.

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