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Azores: Youngster finds message in a bottle from the USA two years later

2021-06-19T16:08:20.234Z


There are thousands of miles of the Atlantic Ocean between the United States and the Azores. A message in a bottle from the northeast of the country has now reached the islands after apparently years of travel.


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View from the Azores to the Atlantic

Photo: imago images / Walter Bibikow

The Azores are almost 4,000 kilometers from Rhode Island.

A boat trip from the state in the northeast of the USA to the Portuguese Atlantic Islands would take days under good conditions and with a fast ship.

It would take a lot longer if you just let yourself drift.

Assuming you even get there.

The discovery of a message in a bottle by a 17-year-old shows that the long way from the USA to the islands is, with luck, at least theoretically possible.

Christian Santos, who found the letter, was fishing when he found the broadcast from the USA, according to the AP news agency.

The plastic bottle that originally contained a soft drink was therefore wrinkled.

Santo's mother had posted the message in a bottle on Facebook - hoping to get in touch with the sender.

The message in the message in the bottle read: “It's Thanksgiving.

I'm 13 and I visit my family in Rhode Island.

I'm from Vermont ”.

In addition, an email address was noted that indicated that the message in a bottle could have been thrown into the sea in 2018.

So far, however, no one has reported back from this.

The Boston Globe also reported on the find.

It is not known whether the sender has reported in the meantime.

fek / AP

Source: spiegel

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