Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Message in a bottle arrives in Ireland

Options
  • 05-10-2010 4:53pm
    #1
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,969 ✭✭✭✭


    MELBOURNE, Fla. – A message in a bottle sent by a Florida high school student as part of his marine science class has come ashore in Ireland. Corey Swearingen put the bottle into the Atlantic Ocean in April 2009 and it followed the current all the way to a small fishing village in Ireland. A 17-year-old boy and his father found the bottle during a family vacation.

    Swearingen's former teacher, Ethan Hall, says the bottle's trip probably lasted about 16 months or so.

    In Ireland, the boy and his father responded to the letter, which urged the reader to write with details of the bottle's location.

    Swearingen told Melbourne newspaper Florida Today he didn't expect the bottle to be found. He's now studying at Florida Atlantic University.

    Thats pretty cool. I love this bit:
    Corey Swearingen put the bottle into the Atlantic Ocean in April 2009 and it followed the current all the way to a small fishing village in Ireland.
    ...
    Swearingen's former teacher, Ethan Hall, says the bottle's trip probably lasted about 16 months or so.

    Proving that Americans are not dumb. This one can look at a calender AND count!

    I wonder which pub is it in. Any one know?


Comments

Advertisement