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The Oldest Confirmed Message in a Bottle Contained Some Fascinating Questions
26 JULY 2021
In 2018, a message in a bottle dating back to 1886 - 132 years ago - was found half-buried in the sand of a Western Australian beach.
According to its contents, it spent more than a century swimming around, before it was discovered nearly 950 kilometres (590 miles) from where it was thrown off a ship in the Indian Ocean.
Beachgoer Tonya Illman found the old gin bottle with a rolled-up message in January 2018, 50 meters (164 feet) from the shoreline at the high water mark on Wedge Island.
Even though it was missing a cork, surprisingly both the bottle and its contents were largely unscathed.
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We push off from the jetty before dawn, launching into the water in a dreamy half-light. Shadowy headlands, coastal cliffs and eucalypts shrouded in fog glide in and out of view as we cruise down the D’Entrecasteaux Channel, the waterway between Bruny Island and the mainland of south-east Tasmania. Lines of seagulls sweep alongside us. Gerard Castles is at the wheel of his small but gutsy fishing boat, a Bar Crusher.
“It’s like a pocket battleship,” he says of his recent purchase, which replaces a tinny. Visibility is poor, the rain soft but persistent. Castles jokes that he’s like an ancient mariner, navigating by instinct. Rain flicks into the cabin as he peers through an unzipped plastic window, beanie pulled low over his head. It’s a balmy winter’s morning, 12 degrees with light winds. We’re immersed in the stuff of Tasmanian tourism brochures, otherworldly and serene. “There’s Bligh Point,” Castles says, indicating a
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