The top of the bottle had been dipped in plaster to keep it sealed, but Hume was able to see that there was a note inside. The plaster made it all but impossible to open the bottle without ...

The sailors had drunk out of a bottle bought in Glasgow, before throwing it overboard. In the note inside, they wrote of their intention of "clearing out to try our luck" when they arrived in Port ...

Using his best hand, my eight-year-old wrote the note. I set up a brand-new email address no one else knew about. We placed it in a Ziploc bag, popped it in the small glass bottle and threw it ...