Talk:Message in a bottle

message: Let's not forget the promotional side of messages in bottles.  http://www.tortugarumcakes.com/site/press_article.cfm?id=message_in_bottle
I'm not sure how to place it in the article but I'm sure someone could do some research and get the pertinent info in the article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.95.11.190 (talk) 07:23, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Promotional

message: Growing up on the coast of Brittany in France, I found in July 1984 a bottle on the beach with a message inside. It was in English, I was only 7 years old and my parents didn't know English, so we asked some British tourists to help us understand. The message came from a small place in Ireland (county Sligo). It had been thrown to sea a little over 18 months sooner. A 9 year old kid wrote it. It said something like "if you find this message, please let me know by sending me a postcard! My name is Cian, I am 10 year old Irish boy from Sligo. Thank you very much. Greetings from Eire". Imagine that! Such an adventure for me! It made my summer vacation. The local newspaper even interviewed me. I sent the kid a postcard, and we remained penpals for quite a while. I don't remember why we quit corresponding. It was stupid, we should have continued. I guess what is cute and exciting when you're 7 becomes cheesy and corny when you're 14...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.72.92.4 (talk) 22:09, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal Experience 

message: "They are also used for scientific studies into ocean currents"
Source please. Surgo 20:05, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
*At the Turks and Caicos Museum site, under the heading Research. Can't really find much other information outside of that site, pretty much everthing Google turns up is about the film or the song. the wub  "?/!" 21:16, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scientific Experiments? 

message: Is the tidbit about shipwrecked people in 2005 really important to the history of messages in a bottle? And at the same time, is the possible myth of Christopher Columbus sending a message in a bottle during a storm worth keeping?
Maybe there should be a "lore" section 
Mike409 (talk) 11:08, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: MetaFilter user verstegan suggests that the thing about QEI employing an Uncorker is lifted from The Man Who Laughs.  Seems like an open-and-shut case for removal to me, if true, but I guess one should go check the Kraske reference given.  4pq1injbok (talk) 20:52, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi there, that's exactly the thing I was reading before I added the dubious tag! I don't have the Kraske book to check what it says, but I have asked verstegan is there is somewhere citable for the debunking. That should be enough to remove it for the time being, and whoever added it originally can come back with quotes from Kraske if they wish. I will let you know if/when I get a answer. Emma May Smith (talk) 21:10, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I have had a reply, and though there is no easily accessible source for debunking this myth, it may be debunked in Curtis Ebbesmeyer and Eric Scigliano, 'Flotsametrics and the Floating World: How One Man's Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science' (HarperCollins, 2009), Appendix A ('Urban Legends of the Sea'). Does anybody have access to that book? Emma May Smith (talk) 15:57, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious 

message: Apparently some famous Roman governor wanted to know where an above-ground river went when when it disappeared underground.  He dumped pine cones in to the water with distinctive markings, and they were later found floating in the Mediterranean sea. I tried to find details of it online, but could not. 
Has anyone got details, and should this be included here. (or elsewhere)--Dmol (talk) 00:08, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, Doesn't have a message in it, So I'm  Not sure.Yutah Andrei Marzan Ogawa123|UPage|☺★ (talk) 06:51, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roman use of pine cones to study water flow. 

message: Memorandum: CNN story (June 30 source: "Did Cuban migrants who climbed lighthouse send S.O.S. note?") reports a possible real, possibly faked, message in a bottle from migrants between Cuba and Florida. The story bears watching, to see if it is validated. —RCraig09 (talk) 14:34, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Confirmed according to CNN  (July 21 source: "Cubans who climbed lighthouse allege inhumane treatment in U.S. custody").  Content has been added to article. —RCraig09 (talk) 03:28, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  As-yet-unverified claim 

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message: The article's text states that the longest term between a bottle's launching and its recovery is 131.6 years. The article's table says the longest term between a bottle's launching and its recovery is 151 years, with the text's "longest" being the item listed "2nd-longest" in the table. Am I just not reading something? If the 151 years is the longest, and the 131.6 years is just the longest according to Guinness, that needs to be sorted out.2604:2000:C682:2D00:D843:CE4A:4831:5319 (talk) 19:24, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point. I've changed the text to now state the January 2018 find "eclipsed the previous corroborated record duration of 108 years" (corroborated by captain's meteorological log). The 151 year old find in 1935, higher in the table, was (as I recall from references) not corroborated though widely reported. RCraig09 (talk) 19:45, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Contradiction?