Greek Sailor’s Message in a Bottle Discovered on New Zealand Beach
” width=”1024″>A Greek sailor’s message in a bottle was recently found on a beach in New Zealand, halfway across the world. Credit: Šarūnas Burdulis /Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 2.0
A message in a bottle from a Greek sailor, which was released into the ocean more than a year ago, was found washed up on Ninety Mile beach in New Zealand last week after having traveled hundreds of miles.
Ken Ferguson, a local fisherman, picked up the bottle in order to avoid it breaking into shards and hurting someone and was astonished to find a message inside it.
Ken Fergusson found the bottle at Ninety Mile Beach.
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Contact details inside have connected the Awanui community with a Greek seafarer who has never been to New Zealand.
At first fisherman Ken Fergusson thought the wine bottle was just another piece of litter when he found it last week. Somebody would be running over it and breaking it, [I thought it would] cause a problem for people s feet. So I stopped and picked it up and threw it on the back of my truck, got home, went to throw it in the rubbish and I noticed there was a card in it.
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