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Titanic victim's tragic message in a bottle - and love potion letter that led to marriage
Greeks began the habit in the third century BC to study water currents, it’s reckoned more than six million messages have been put in bottles and dropped in the ocean.Now, one plopped into the North Sea by eight-year-old schoolgirl Joanna Buchan from Aberdeenshire in 1996 has been found 800 miles away in Norway - 25 years later.Here James Moore looks at more amazing stories…In 1784 Japanese sailor Chunosuke Matsuyama and 43 others were shipwrecked on a South Pacific island. He carved a message into a piece of coconut wood, put it in a bottle, and set it adrift hoping for help.
