In 1984 a school class in Japan threw a message in a bottle into the sea.
Now a nine-year-old girl in Hawaii found the special message on the beach.
Hilo - Over 30 years ago, students from Chiba Prefectural Choshi High School in the city of Choshi in eastern Japan threw a message in a bottle into the sea.
In July of that year, a nine-year-old girl from Keeau, Hawaii found the news on the beach.
The vice director of the school in Japan was enthusiastic.
37 years ago, the message in a bottle was part of a project on ocean currents.
That is a long time, but not yet a record: The oldest message in a bottle that has been found so far was 132 years old - and came from Germany.
School project on ocean currents: 51 of the 750 messages arrived
Between 1984 and 1985, students from Chiba Prefectural Choshi High School threw a total of 750 bottles of messages into the sea. At the time, it was part of a school project on the subject of ocean currents. The students threw the message in a bottle into the Kuroshio Stream near Miyakejima Island. Of the total of 750 bottles, 51 messages have already arrived, including the USA, Canada, the Philippines and the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. However, the last person who found it contacted me in 2002, which is why the discovery of the current message in a bottle was a sensation for the school.
It was found by a nine-year-old girl named Abbie Graham who discovered the message in a bottle on the beach near Hilo, Hawaii.
Inside the bottle was a sealed letter dated July 1984.
In it, the Japanese students asked the person who found the message in a bottle to return the message to Choshi High School.
Message in a bottle: The little Hawaiian receives this finder's reward
Jun Hayashi, the school's vice president in Japan, was delighted with the find: "We are very happy and excited about this discovery," he told the
Hawaii Tribune Herald
.
The former teacher Yutaka Michida, who started the project on ocean currents, also found the find “very interesting”.
Overall, it is the tenth message in a bottle of the project that the ocean washed ashore in Hawaii.
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A man waves a traditional Tairyō-bata flag: The little finder from Hawaii receives a mini version of this Japanese fisherman's flag for reporting the message in a bottle.
© Yuka Shiga / AFLOSPORT / Imago
Choshi High School announced that the little finder, Abbie Graham, will soon receive mail from the current students.
It will also contain a small tairyō-bata.
It is a traditional flag used by Japanese fishermen that they hang on their ships when they want to announce a big catch while they are sailing back to port.
The literal translation of Tairyō-bata is "Big Catch Flag".