World record as message in bottle found after 98 years near Shetland
Found on BBC News on Friday, 31 August 2012
A Scottish skipper has set a new world record after finding a message in a bottle 98 years after it was released.
The drift bottle - containing a postcard which promised a reward of six pence to the finder - was released in June 1914 by Captain CH Brown of the Glasgow School of Navigation.
A spokesperson for Guinness World Records said: "We are pleased to hear that the same vessel helped to break the Guinness World Record for oldest message in a bottle twice.
People all over the world try to discover ways to store data safely for long periods of time. It looks like sticking a piece of paper into a bottle and throwing it into the ocean is one of the more simple, yet obviously reliable methods.