An April 2015 find on the North Sea island of Amrum, Germany, of a 108-year-old bottle sent by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom in Plymouth, was one of 1,020 released into the North Sea between 1904 and 1906 by former association president George Parker Bidder III. [16] Hepburn, Jonathan (February 7, 2016). "Global 'message in a bottle' to be beamed to the stars carrying contributions from the public". Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC). Archived from the original on February 7, 2016. Steinmeyer, Trevor (March 29, 2020). "Update: Message In A Bottle Traveled From Omaha To Missouri, Sender And Finder Connect". River Country. News Channel Nebraska. Archived from the original on March 31, 2020.

Some agencies continue to use drift bottles into the 21st century, but with increased awareness that man-made floating items can harm marine life or constitute waste material, [24] [4] biodegradable drift cards [3] and biodegradable wooden drifters [4] with non-toxic ink [153] are gaining favor. In 1969, a Canadian scientific expedition dropped a message bottle through a hole in the drift ice at the approximate North Pole. The bottle was found in 1972 in northeast Iceland. [73]

Das Tragödie von L19 (The tragedy of L19)" (in German). Zeppelin-Museums Tondern (Denmark). Archived from the original on July 2, 2002 . Retrieved June 10, 2010. In 1959 Guinness Brewery launched 150,000 bottles into the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea in a promotional campaign. [24] It was reported that Inuit hunters on Coats Island, in Canada's Hudson Bay, found 80 of the bottles. [24]

Polarforschung Gestern / Historischer Teil über Carl Weyprecht und die Expedition von 1872-1874 (Polar research yesterday Historical part about Carl Weyprecht and the expedition from 1872-1874)". Carl-Weyprecht.org (in German). 2013. Archived from the original on August 11, 2015. (publication date estimated based on earliest Archive.org archive) In what was described as "perhaps the most famous message in a bottle love story", [78] in March 1999 a green ginger beer bottle was dredged up by a fisherman off the Essex coast, the bottle containing an 84 year old letter tossed into the English channel on September 9, 1914, by British soldier Private Thomas Hughes days before he was killed in fighting in France. [33] Hughes' letter, written for delivery to his wife who had died in 1979, was delivered instead to his then 86-year-old daughter in New Zealand by the fisherman himself, who with his own wife was flown to New Zealand at the expense of New Zealand Post. [33]

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Cremated remains of Tenn. woman found inside 'message in a bottle' ". Nashville, Tennessee: WKRN. May 24, 2019. Archived from the original on June 10, 2019. This bottled message, released June 12, 1886, from a German sailing vessel in the Indian Ocean as part of a drift bottle study, was found on a beach in Western Australia in 2018. [90] Message in a Bottle on Australian Beach". Brinkwire. August 12, 2019. Archived from the original on August 15, 2019. Message-bearing bottles from Titanic (1912) [58] and Lusitania (1915) [6] have been widely recounted as fact, but even before these bottles were found The Irish News stated in April 1912 that "very many" such stories turn out to be "cruel hoaxes". [58] a b c Sinclair, Jesara (July 30, 2018). "Why throwing a message in a bottle into the ocean might be a bad idea". CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). Archived from the original on August 27, 2018.

In July 2017, a Scottish widower seeking female companionship set 2,000 bottled messages adrift at various locations around the U.K., and though claiming he received responses from 50 women, ceased the practice in response to public complaints and an investigation by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. [94] In February 1862, the Bashford Hall "sent afloat a message in a bottle describing her perilous state." However, she arrived safely at Falmouth, England on March 6, 1862. [52] In 1991 a bottled message found on Vancouver Island, Canada, urged the release of Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng. [24] [25] Believed to have been released in 1980 near Quemoy Island, China, it is thought to be among Taiwan propaganda bottles launched toward mainland China. [24] [25]a b c d e f g Penry, Jerry, LS (March 2007). "Message in a Bottle" (PDF). The American Surveyor. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 23, 2014. {{ cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) de Luna, Marcy (February 21, 2019). "57-year-old message in bottle washes up on Texas shore". Houston Chronicle. Archived from the original on February 21, 2019. May 1962 launch date is estimated; known to be 1962–1963.