Message In a Bottle

This is not a fairy tale. But the real events that happened since the old times. A number of stories about the messages being inserted into the bottle and washed away into the ocean. A way of sending messages that are still remembered in the history of mankind.

Message in a bottle (message in the bottle) is a form of communication "ancient". You do this by placing a letter or a short message in a watertight tube (can drums, glass bottles, plastic bottles or special containers) and washed away into the sea or ocean. Usually the message is not addressed to a specific address, because it is so it can reach any region depends on ocean currents. Therefore, the use of messages in bottles are usually performed in an emergency such as a message pleas for help that made the ship sank, the ship is damaged, or people who were stranded on a desert island.

However, due to ineffectiveness and impressed "chancy", sending a message in this bottle was eventually not included in the formal messaging system. But still many people who use it until now as part of the entertainment, fun and games. Even the term message in a bottle also undergone a change of meaning. It's no longer the message is really stored in a bottle, but it contains the phrase (understanding) of a message conveyed through the media, not directed specifically to the target.

The bottle is a container appropriate for the condition of the oceans. The nature of the author of the glass, causing the bottles are not affected by water erosion, salt water damage and very difficult to disentangle. In addition, the bottle will be sealed watertight and air contained in it which allows the float in a long time. Because of its float, the bottle will follow the direction of winds and ocean currents, until the end when terhempar to the beach and the mainland.

In history, the first record of the use of messages in bottles have been made in the year 310 BC by the ancient Greek philosopher Theophrastus, as part of an experiment to show that the ocean current is a flow of the Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean.

Then other notes also recorded that Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) explorer and discoverer of the Americas (New World), using a message in a bottle when his ship was hit by a fleet of ocean storms. He put a brief report notes the trip and a special message to Queen of Spain into a drum, then threw it into the sea. He hoped that the message can be accepted, although he did not survive the raging storms.

Then in the 16th century, the British Navy uses a message in a bottle to give information to fellow British fleet. The message contains vital intelligence information about enemy positions and state waters. 

However, since often the fishermen find the bottle and opened the message, the message was leaked intelligence.

Queen Elizabeth I of wrath because of intelligence data is often opened and eventually became public knowledge, then set a special rule that message in a bottle of British Navy and British kingdom should not be opened at random, except by special official royal opening message "Uncorker of Ocean Bottles". Violation of this order is punishable by death.

The use of messages in bottles in most modern records conducted by the "boat people" in May 2005. A total of 88 boat migrants was rescued off the coast of Costa Rica after the nearest authorities found a message in a bottle from a fishing vessel is docked. Message in a bottle that was attached by a convoy of refugee ships into a fishing boat that passes near them. It contained a brief message asking them SOS rescued.

Romance Messages In Bottles
There is a romantic story that still is remembered about the message in a bottle.The story of a pair of human children who initially separated thousands of miles by sea, but were eventually united in the bond of true love. Marriage brought a message in a bottle.

Ake is the Viking, a Swedish sailor who feels very lonely. He worked on a cruise ship that ever sailed around the world. Because of his work on the ship, he had no time to socialize with life on land.

In 1956, he devoted his desire in a letter. In his message he hoped to find a girl idol of the heart to dipersunting as his wife. He asked who the young woman who found the message to reply to his letter. By any chance he put the message into an old wine bottle and tossed it into the middle of the ocean.

Many months later, an old fisherman in Sicily (Italy) discovered the message was caught in his net. He then opened the bottle and read the letter inside. The fishermen bring home the message in the bottle and jokingly showed the letter to his daughter, Paolina. Intrigued fad and curiosity and feel that this kind of game that's fun, Paolina reply to the letter to address these cruise companies.

In the months that followed his letter unrequited, Paolina and Ake Viking and intensely involved in correspondence without ever met. Chat correspondence leading to romantic things and their relationships increasingly warmed.

Two years later, Ake Viking took time off to visit Paolina in Sicily. Mate was adrift and Ake Viking promised to return again. In the fall of 1958, Ake Viking back to Sicily and apply Paolina at their second meeting. The two lovebirds are finally married in that year. Wow!

The stories Messages In Bottles
Many facts are closely related to the message in a bottle. The story smells of science, mystery and romance ... but it is nuanced humanist. Only started with a message in a bottle!

A heartbreaking true story of the mysterious derived from records Chunosuke Matsuyama. He is a Japanese sailor who became victims of shipwrecks along with 44 crew in the year 1784. In the voyage, their ship was hit by a storm and sank in the Pacific Ocean. Matsuyama and his crew of survivors stranded on a remote atoll in the Pacific.

Half desperately to see his colleagues one by one died of starvation, Matsuyama write tragedies that befall them on top of a tree bark and then put it into a bottle.After sealing the bottle for water-resistant, he threw it into the ocean.

Approximately 150 years later, in 1934, message in a bottle written Matsuyama swept waves and landed on the sandy beach in the village of his birth. There was no explanation that could answer how the message can reach the village of birth Matsuyama?

Message from the Battlefield
Another anomaly comes from the battlefields of World War I. While sailing across the English Channel (English Channel) towards the front fighter (1914), a British infantry soldier Thomas Hughes, who suffered a longing to go home to write a letter to his wife. The letter was the inclusion into a watertight bottle and tossed into the ocean. Two days later they attacked a convoy of ships and Thomas Hughes were reported killed in the fighting.

Eighty-five years later in March 1999, a fisherman found an old bottle containing a message from the Thames estuary. He read the message and take a trip to Auckland, New Zealand to deliver the letter directly to the daughter of Hughes.Princess 86-year-old Hughes was very touched. This is the only letter ever received from his father, all his life.

Another story comes from two Australian soldiers during World War I. On the way to battle fronts in France, they agreed to create a letter to his mother. They enter the letter into a bottle and melarungnya into the sea.

The two soldiers are reported killed in combat in France. But the message in a bottle was found 37 years later. The bottle was washed up on shore the island of Tasmania in 1953. The letter was delivered to both the soldier's mother and recognize it as his original handwriting.

Another message came from a bottle that escaped from the battlefield of Europe-Africa. A message in a bottle was found from the coast of Maine USA, 1944. The message contains a brief statement: "Our ship is sinking. SOS Did not do any good.Think it's the end. Maybe this message will of get to the U.S. Some day "(we ship to sink. SOS did not reciprocate. We're exhausted. Maybe someday, this message will reach the United States).

After investigation, it turns out that message comes from the boat destroyer USS Beatty (DD-640), which was hit by a torpedo the German fleet in the western sea, sea, Africa and sank not far from the Strait of Gibraltar on 6 November 1943 during World War II.

A Rescue
Not always a message in a bottle late arrival. As a result of a message in a bottle, a group of rebel players on board (Mutiny) was successfully captured. It happened many 1875.

Above poster sailing ship three (bark) Lennie's Canada, there was the whole crew revolt against a number of ship officers. The ship was taken over and left a low officers who understand the navigation and steering system of ships. He directed the ship into the waters of France and told the rebels that they are on Spanish territory. It was the helmsman threw a message in a bottle about the tragedy on board.

It turns out one message in a bottle found in France and the direct authority responded. Still sailing in French waters, the ship was stopped and the entire French Navy crew captured a rebel. The rebels wonder, why did they revolt action can be known French authority. The strength of a message in a bottle.

Message "Scientific" in the Bottle
Starting from the habit of sending messages in bottles, finally, a scientific discovery occurs. That gulf stream flow mapping and map the ocean currents (Gulf Stream Map) by Benjamin Franklin. He who first mapped the bay that complements the current flow map ocean currents, which is basically used up to now.

A number of experiments have been conducted and concluded that it is very difficult to predict the direction of a bottle drifting in high seas.

There is an experiment using two bottles into the sea at the same dilarungkan off the coast of Brazil. The first bottle drifting for 130 days and found the coast of Africa. Another bottle drifting northwestward over 190 days and was stranded in Nicaragua.

Other studies, proving that the bottles are floating in the sea depending on wind speeds and ocean currents. It could be the bottle adrift following the direction of the wind, blowing over water waves. Or swept the bay and ocean currents that bring the speed of 4 knots as far as 100 miles per day.

Travel the farthest and oldest bottle in the bottle experiment, dubbed the Flying Dutchman (his name according to an old legend that a ghost ship adrift in high seas). Cast the first time in a scientific expedition of German scientists in 1929 in the southern Indian Ocean. Inside is a short message asking for the inventor of the bottle to write location found the bottle and then threw it back into the sea.

Experiments prove that the German bottle that message bounced across the Atlantic to South America, then returned to the Indian Ocean and stranded in the waters of Western Australia in 1935. Noted that the bottle had sailed the ocean as far as 16,000 miles for 2447 days (about 6.5 years) with an average cruising speed of six nautical miles per day.

The most important findings is Benjamin Franklin. When he served as postmaster for the colonies of British America, he realized that the captain of the whaling ships know of ocean currents better than the counterparts from Britain. U.S. ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean much faster than the British ships to deliver postal package. He also compiled a map based on knowledge of the sailors and whalers information obtained by dropping a bottle with instructions written into the bay ocean currents (Gulf Stream) and ask anyone who find it to return the bottles.

Based on all that information, he was applying to be a map of ocean currents. He also became the creator of the first map of the Gulf Stream and published it in 1770 with his colleague, whaling captain Timothy Folger. Copy of this map was lost for nearly 200 years until it was found in France.

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