Here is an article sent to me by Lee Reichart after the earlier post.<\/p>\n
Mar 29, 11:09 AM EDT<\/p>\n
Baltic Sea letter in a bottle found 24 years later<\/strong><\/p>\n MOSCOW (AP) — Nearly a quarter-century after a German boy tossed a message in a bottle off a ship in the Baltic Sea, he’s received an answer.<\/p>\n A 13-year-old Russian, Daniil Korotkikh, was walking with his parents on a beach when he saw something glittering lying in the sand.<\/p>\n “I saw that bottle and it looked interesting,” Korotkikh told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “It looked like a German beer bottle with a ceramic plug, and there was a message inside.”<\/p>\n His father, who knows schoolboy German, translated the letter, carefully wrapped in cellophane and sealed by a medical bandage.<\/p>\n It said: “My name is Frank, and I’m five years old. My dad and I are traveling on a ship to Denmark. If you find this letter, please write back to me, and I will write back to you.”<\/p>\n The letter, dated 1987, included an address in the town of Coesfeld.<\/p>\n The boy in the letter, Frank Uesbeck, is now 29. His parents still live at the letter’s address.<\/p>\n “At first I didn’t believe it,” Uesbeck told the AP about getting the response from Korotkikh. In fact, he barely remembered the trip at all; his father actually wrote the letter.<\/p>\n The Russian boy and the German man met each other earlier this month via an Internet video link.<\/p>\n Korotkikh showed Uesbeck the bottle where he found the message and the letter that he put in a frame.<\/p>\n The Russian boy said he does not believe that the bottle actually spent 24 years in the sea: “It would not have survived in the water all that time,” he said.<\/p>\n He believes it had been hidden under the sand where he found it – on the Curonian Spit, a 100-kilometer (60-mile) stretch of sand in Lithuania and Russia.<\/p>\n In the web chat earlier this month, Uesbek gave Korotkikh his new address to write to and promised to write back when he receives his letter.<\/p>\n “He’ll definitely get another letter from me,” the 29-year-old said.<\/p>\n Uesbeck was especially thrilled that he was able to have a positive impact on a life of a young person far away from Germany.<\/p>\n “It’s really a wonderful story,” he said. “And who knows? Perhaps one day we will actually be able to arrange a meeting in person.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here is an article sent to me by Lee Reichart after the earlier post. Mar 29, 11:09 AM EDT Baltic Sea letter in a bottle found 24 years later MOSCOW (AP) — Nearly a quarter-century after a German boy tossed a message in a bottle off a ship in the Baltic Sea, he’s received an … Continue reading SEQUEL<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[2519],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stephen-lirakis","tag-message-in-a-bottle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1433,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}