Message in bottle washes up in Germany after 108-years

The world's oldest message in a bottle has reportedly washed up in Germany after 108 years at sea. The bottle had been dropped by renowned researcher George Parker Bidder into the sea in the early 1900s, and it was discovered in April by a woman walking the beach on Amrum Island in the North Sea.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 21 August 2015.

Marianne Winkler had found the bottle as she was walking on the beach. Inside the bottle was a postcard from the Marine Biologist Association with a message, written in German, Dutch, and English. It promised a reward of one shilling to the person who returned it.
As revealed by the MBA, George Parker Bidder had released approximately 1,020 bottles between 1904 and 1906. It was part of an experiment to understand ocean currents. The bottles were designed to float above the sea bed so they could be carried by the deep sea currents.
Thanks to those bottles, Bidder had succeeded in proving that the currents flowed from east to west in the North Sea – this was a valuable information for local fisherman.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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