Oldest message in a bottle washes up on German island of Amrum

By Nicky Phillips
Updated September 7 2015 - 10:13am, first published August 26 2015 - 11:45pm
Dr George Bidder released more than 1000 bottles with messages 111 years ago. The oldest surviving one has washed up in Germany. Photo: MBA
Dr George Bidder released more than 1000 bottles with messages 111 years ago. The oldest surviving one has washed up in Germany. Photo: MBA

When British scientist George Parker Bidder started tossing glass bottles into the North Sea in 1904 he wasn't sending an SOS to the world. Nor did they contain love letters.

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