76 Years Old Message Delivered From Sea, In a Bottle

What goes down in the sea returns back to the surface.. Believe it?

All of us know about the titanic story. But, have you ever given a thought to this little observation that how many ships might have missed their destination and are still sleeping dead in the lap of tremendously unfathomable oceans across the whole world. Well, another thought that could strike just after this comes from the concern arising for the people aboard without any source that can help them inform their near and dear ones.

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One such man named H.E. Hillbrick sailing on board on SS Stanthnaver, a British Royal Mail Ship, preordained to carry people from England to Australia and vice-versa talking back down about 1940s, got trapped in the flood in the middle of the sea where he tossed a note in a bottle which was found in New Zealand by Geoff Flood while he was taking a leisure walk along a beach.

The local media was told, by Geoff, " As I picked it up and started looking, I could see it was an old envelope with P & O on it and I thought this might be something special. There was a bit of mad panic to carefully extract it. I carefully cut a couple of bits of wire and quietly wound it up with the bits of wire so we didn't damage it. 

Who knows where it's been. How many times around the world, you just wouldn't know, would you?
And guess what the note read! 

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It said; " At sea. Would the finder of this bottle kindly forward this note, where found, date, to underneath address." 

And address led Geoff to H.E. Hillbrick, 72, Richmond Street, Leederville, Western Australia where he met Hillbrick's grandson Peter who only had photographs of Hillbrick and his wife on board in the name of memories of his grandfather as he died before Peter could even enter this world.

Peter feels huge gratitude for Geoff for giving him this most precious memory of his grandfather. A note written by his grandfather himself. And he decided to donate the bottle to Maritime Museum in New Zealand.
[SOURCE: Discovery News]