The origin of Message In Bottle

This is not a fairy tale. But the real events that occurred since time immemorial. A number of stories about the messages being inserted into the bottle and washed out to sea. A way of sending messages that remain memorable in the history of mankind.

Message in a bottle (message in the bottle) is a form of communication "ancient". You do this by placing a letter or a short message in a watertight tube (can drums, glass bottles, plastic bottles or special containers) and washed out to sea or ocean. Usually the message is not addressed to a specific address, because it is indeed able to reach any region depends on ocean currents. Therefore, the use of messages in bottles are usually performed in an emergency such as a message for help y ang carried the ship sank, the ship is damaged, or a person stranded on a desert island.

However, due to ineffectiveness and impressed "chance", sending a message in this bottle was eventually not included in the formal messaging system. But there are still many people who wear them until now as part of the entertainment, fun and games. Even the term message in a bottle also has experienced a change of meaning. It's no longer really a message that is stored in a bottle, but it contains phrases (terms) of a message conveyed through the media, khus not directed us to the target.

The bottle is a container appropriate for the condition of the oceans. The nature of the materials used are of glass, causing the bottle is not affected by water erosion, salt water damage and very difficult to disentangle. In addition, the bottles will be sealed watertight and air contained in it which allows floating in a long time. Because of its floats, the bottle will follow the direction of winds and ocean currents, to a stop when terhempar to the beach and the mainland.

In history, the first record of the use of the message in a bottle has been done in the year 310 BC by the ancient Greek philosopher Theophrastus, as part of an experiment to show that the ocean currents of the Mediterranean Sea is a flow to the Atlantic Ocean.

Then other notes also recorded that Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) the explorer and discoverer of the Americas (New World) use the message in a bottle when his ship was hit by a fleet of ocean storms. He records his journey include a brief report and a special message for the Queen of Spain into a drum, and then threw it into the sea. He hopes that the message could be accepted, although he did not survive the storm.

Then in the 16th century, the British Navy to use the message in a bottle to give information to fellow British fleet. The message contains information vital intelligence about enemy positions and state waters. However, since often the fishermen find the bottle and opened the message, the message was leaked intelligence.

Queen Elizabeth I who are indignant because the intelligence data is often opened and eventually became public knowledge, then set specific rules that message in a bottle owned by the British Navy and the United Kingdom should not be opened at random, except by special official royal opening message "Uncorker of Ocean Bottles" . Violation of this order is punishable by death.

The use of messages in bottles in most modern records conducted by the "boat people" in May 2005. Some 88 boat migrants was rescued off the coast of Costa Rica after authorities found a message in a bottle nearby of a fishing vessel is docked. Message in a bottle that was attached by a convoy of refugee ships into a passing fishing boat near them. It contained a brief message asking them SOS rescued.

Romanticism Message In Bottle

There is a romantic tale that still remembered about the message in a bottle. The story of the first pair of human children separated thousands of miles by sea, but finally united in the bonds of true love. Perjodohan carried a message in a bottle.

Ake is a Viking, a Swedish sailor who feels very lonely. He worked on a cruise ship that ever sailed around the world. Because of his work on the boat, he did not have time to socialize with life on the mainland.

In 1956, she devoted her longings in a letter. In his message he hopes to find a girl idol of the heart to dipersunting as his wife. He asked anyone who found the young woman's message to reply to his letter. By chance did he put the message into an old wine bottle and tossed it into the middle of the ocean.

Months later, an old fisherman in Sicily (Italy) found that message stuck in his net. He then opened the bottle and read the letter inside. The fishermen bring home the message in a bottle and jokingly showed the letter to his daughter, Paolina. Mischief and curiosity aroused and feel that this kind of game that's fun, Paolina replied to the letter to address the cruise ship company.
In the following months a response letter, AKE Paolina Vikings and then engaged in intense correspondence without ever meeting. Chat correspondence leading romantic affairs and their relationships increasingly heating up.

Two years later, Ake Viking Paolina take leave to visit in Sicily. Mate was adrift and Ake Viking promised to return again. In the fall of 1958, Ake Viking back to Sicily and apply Paolina at their second meeting. These two lovebirds were finally married in that year. Wow!

The stories Message In Bottle
Many facts are closely related to the message in a bottle. The story smells of science, mystery and romance ... but indeed full of nuance humanist. Only started with a message in a bottle!

A poignant story of a mysterious clear from a note Chunosuke Matsuyama. It is a Japanese sailor who fell victim to the ship sunk with 44 crew in the year 1784. On the voyage, their ship and sank in a storm dihantam Pacific Ocean. Matsuyama and secure a number of crew stranded on a remote atoll in the Pacific.

Half desperately to see his colleagues one by one died of starvation, Matsuyama write the tragedy that befell them on top of a tree bark and then put it into a bottle. After sealing the bottle so that water-resistant, he threw it into the ocean.

Approximately 150 years later, in 1934, a written message in a bottle washed Matsuyama waves and landed on a sandy beach in his native village. There was no explanation that could answer how the message could reach the village of birth Matsuyama?

Message from the Battlefield
Another oddity came from the battlefields of World War I. When sailing across the English Channel (Home Channel) towards the front fighter (1914), a British infantry soldier Thomas Hughes who suffered a longing to go home to write a letter to his wife. Inclusion of the letter in a bottle of water and threw tight into the sea. Two days later they attacked a convoy of ships and Thomas Hughes were reported killed in the fighting.

Eighty-five years later in March 1999, a fisherman found an old bottle containing a message from the estuary of the River Thames. He read the message and the journey to Auckland, New Zealand to deliver the letter directly to the daughter of Hughes. Hughes was 86-year-old daughter was deeply moved. This is the only letter he has received from his father, all his life.

Another story comes from two Australian soldiers during World War I. On the way to combat fronts in France, they agreed to create a letter to his mother. They put the letter into a bottle and melarungnya into the sea.

Both soldiers were reported killed in fighting in France. But the message in a bottle was discovered 37 years later. The bottle was washed ashore the island of Tasmania in 1953. The letter was delivered to both the soldier's mother and recognize it as a native son's handwriting.

Another message came from a bottle that escaped from the battlefield of Europe-Africa. A message in a bottle was found from the coast of Maine USA, 1944. The message contains a brief statement: "Our ship is sinking. SOS did not do any good. Think it's the end. Maybe Will get this message to the U.S. some day" (we ship to sink. SOS is not reciprocated. We're exhausted. Maybe a In the future, this message will reach the United States).

USS Beatty (DD-640)

After investigation, it turns out that the message originated from the boat destroyer USS Beatty (DD-640), which was hit by torpedo the German fleet in the sea area west, north Africa and sank not far from the Strait of Gibraltar on 6 November 1943 during World War II.

A Rescue
Not always a message in a bottle arrived late. As a result of a message in a bottle, a group of rebel players on board (Mutiny) was successfully captured. It happened 1875 years.

Above the three-masted sailing ship (bark) Lennie's Canada, there was a revolt against a whole crew of a ship's officer. The ship was taken over and left a low officer who understood navigation and steering system of the ship. He was directing the ship toward the waters of France and told the rebels that they are on Spanish territory. It was the helmsman threw a message in a bottle about the tragedy on board.

Apparently one of the messages in a bottle is found and direct the French authorities responded. Still sailing in French waters, the ship was stopped and the entire French navy captured the rebel crew. The rebels wonder why they can be known insurgency French authorities. The strength of a message in a bottle.

The message "Scientific" in the Bottle
Starting from the habit of sending messages in bottles, finally, a scientific discovery occurs. Namely mapping and map the flow of Gulf Stream ocean currents (Gulf Stream Map) by Benjamin Franklin. He who first mapped the flow of Gulf Stream ocean current that complements the basic map used until now.

A number of experiments have been conducted and concluded that it is very difficult to predict where a bottle drifting in high seas.

There are experiments using two bottles into the sea dilarungkan simultaneously from offshore Brazil. The first bottle drifting for 130 days and was found on the coast of Africa. Another bottle drifting to the northwest during the 190 days and stranded in Nicaragua.

Other studies, proving that the bottles are floating in the sea depending on wind speeds and ocean currents. It could be the bottle bobbing follow the direction of the wind, blew over water waves. Or swept the bay and ocean currents that bring the speed of 4 knots as far as 100 miles per day.

Traveling the farthest and oldest bottle in the bottle experiment was dubbed the Flying Dutchman (his name according to an old legend of a ghost ship adrift in high seas). Thrown the first time in a scientific expedition of German scientists in 1929 in the southern Indian Ocean. Inside was a short message that asks the inventor of the bottle in order to write down the location is found the bottle and then tossed back into the sea.

Germany's experiment proves that the message was bounced into the bottle of South America across the Atlantic, then back to the Indian Ocean and stranded in the waters of Western Australia in 1935. Noted that the bottle was the ocean as far as 16,000 miles for 2447 days (approximately 6.5 years) with an average cruising speed of six nautical miles per day.

The most important findings of Benjamin Franklin. When he served as postmaster for the colonies of British America, he realized that the whaling boat captains know the ocean currents better than counterparts from the UK. American ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean much faster than the British ships to deliver postal package. He also compiled a map based on the knowledge of the sailors and whalers information obtained by menj atuhkan a bottle with instructions written into the Gulf Stream ocean (gulf stream) and ask anyone who find him to return the bottles.

Based on this information, he was applying to be a map of ocean currents. He also became the creator of the first map of the Gulf Stream and published it in 1770 with his partner, whaling captain Timothy Folger. Copy of the map was lost for nearly 200 years until it was found in France.