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A special message recently in a bottle Remote Canadian Islands.
The discovery was announced by Sable Island National Park Reserve in a May 23 Facebook post. The island is located near the waters of Nova Scotia.
Park officials said in the post that the bottle was discovered by Mark Doucette Archaeological technician From Potlotek First Nation, a Native American community.
“This news is very fading, but we can show that the bottle was sent to the sea from a supply ship near Sable Island on January 14, 1983.”
Parks Canada accepted Fox News Digital’s representative Jennifer Nicholson said the first thing officials noticed after opening the bottle was its strong smell.
Archaeological technician Mark Doucette found news from 1983 in a bottle on Sable Island, a remote island near Nova Scotia. (Sable Island National Park Reserke via Facebook)
“Okay, first of all, you can Still smelling gin! “She recalled. “Even after 40 years, this has not disappeared.” ”
Gin dissolves some ink on the letters, but it is still visible. Nicholson said the paper was still wet for forty years.
“As it drys, you can tell more about the information – you can see the impression the pen leaves,” she said.
The letter has few details, about the ship it sent out, which requires some research from park officials.
Park officials are looking for crew members of the British supply ship that launched decades-long time capsules. (Sable Island National Park Reserke via Facebook)
“It’s hard to name the ship at first. You can tell it to end with ‘Sea Hunter’,” Nicholson said.
“We did a little excavation and one of the archaeologists discovered there was once a supply ship called Wimpey Sea Hunter. It was a British supply ship built in Devon in 1982.”
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She added: “The crew’s name is also on the back. We can’t track any crew members after this time. But if they’re there, we’d love to hear from them!”
The bottle also contains the 1974 Two Dollar Act, which includes Young Queen Elizabeth.
“We have appliances like TVs and refrigerators to wash them on the beach – especially the refrigerator.”
“Banks of Canada replaced the two dollar bill with (two dollar coins) in 1996, and some of our sable teams had never seen the two dollar bill before,” Nicholson noted.
Similar bottles washed on the Canadian coast are not unheard of. Nicholson said there is usually a message in Nova Scotia every year.
Sable Island National Park Reserve is about 160 nautical miles from Halifax, Nova Scotia. (Getty Image)
“A lot of them came from the 1980s,” she said. “The oldest one my colleagues found was a ship sailing from Britain to North America in the 1930s, which was really neat.”
Besides that, Nicholson said Park officials Already seen “almost everything” washed on the coast.
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“We already have appliances that we have TVs and refrigerators that wash on the beach – especially refrigerators because they have a lot of insulation, so they float.”
“We’ve washed things with Russian labels. We found a small container of pills from France. And a lot of typical waste you imagined – Plastic water bottleother single-use plastics. ”
At present, the bottle has been sent to the Canadian Park Archives for further research and preservation.
Sable Island contains many wild horses that were introduced to the island in the 18th century. (Sarah Mediel; Park in Canada)
Bottles containing decades of information are often found around the world. In 2023, a Frenchman I accidentally found one This was sent by a fifth-grade Massachusetts student in 1997.
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In 2021, a bottle of 108 years of history is Discovered at Ford Construction Site in Michigan.
