Miracles of the bottle mail: Heringsdorf friendship about the Atlantic!
Miracles of the bottle mail: Heringsdorf friendship about the Atlantic!
In an exciting story about friendship and discovery, Jörg Wanke from Heringsdorf and the American Clint Buffington recently overcome the boundaries of the Atlantic. Thanks to a piece of bottle that Wanke threw into the sea almost ten years ago, the two found each other. Ostsee-Zeitung reports that Wanke let his bottle into the water at the end of October 2015 between Madeira and the Canary Islands while he was on cruise with his family.
The bottle, which made an amazing route of almost 6,000 kilometers, was found a few weeks ago by Buffington on an uninhabited island of the Bahamas. In a 30-minute video call, the two men were able to talk about their love for the bottle mail. Buffington, a musician from Utah, has already found over 140 bottle mail messages in recent years. Incidentally, the bottle found was his second blue bottle, which he discovered on his discovery tours.
an unexpected contact
Buffington found the bottle with his father during a walk in the beach and decided to look for the sender about social media. Thanks to a report in the Zdfheute he was able to establish contact with Wanke. The Wanke couple, who spontaneously decided on a nice evening to write the bottle mail, is happy about this unexpected contact across the big pond.
Wanke, who works as a pilot and regularly travels to the USA, sees a little miracle in the bottle mail. "It is great that a piece of paper that we thrown into the water was able to travel so far and has now led to this friendship," he says. In the meantime, he and his wife even thrown a new bottle in the Baltic Sea from the Heringsdorf pier. It remains exciting whether this suffers the same fate.
The fascination of bottle mail
bottle mail has a long, fascinating story. As early as the 19th century, scientists began to explore the sea with these courier trips. As Deutschlandfunk Kultur , the physicist and polar researcher Georg Neumayer started a bigger bottle post project in 1864 to explore marine flows. At that time, 6,500 bottles were suspended and over 600 feedback helped to create the first flow cards. Nowadays, bottle items stand for science, but also for personal adventures.
The stories of bottle items and their thinkers still captivate many people. Whether a poem at an unknown or a message to the world: the idea that someone in another part of the globe will come across this small bottle makes the bottle mail a very special means of communication. The friendship between Wanke and Buffington is a modern example of the magic of the bottle mail that has survived generations.
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