Message in a bottle washes up at the Jersey Shore
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A man walking his dogs in Long Beach Island’s Harvey Cedars found a bottle that contained a note which appears to have been written by someone from England.
Vince Stango says a recent storm washed away the sand dunes on Harvey Cedars and that’s when he spotted the bottle.
Stango tells the Asbury Park Press the note was written on stationery from the Cunard cruise line.
The note read: “Found the bottle? Read this note? I’m Stuart, if you wish, call or mail me. Speak or mail soon. England Stuart.”
Stango sent a message to an email address that was provided and called two phone numbers in the United Kingdom. So far, no response.
In the reverse route, a message in a bottle tossed into the Atlantic Ocean from Island Beach State Park in January 2014 reached northwestern France — more than 3,000 miles away. The note read, “Write to us about your good fortunes!”
Just to the south of Island Beach State Park, a little girl’s message in a bottle that entered the ocean in Barnegat Light arrived in Ireland.
And a bottle throw into the ocean in Ocean City in 1985 was discovered in North Carolina’s Outer Banks after a 2009 nor’easter.
The note read: “Thank you for finding me!!! I am from a ‘message in a bottle’ contest and I was launched Monday, July 1, 1985. If you found me before August 1, 1985, please contact the public relations office, Ocean City. … You will receive a free prize if I have traveled the farthest!!”
That bottle was part of a contest that offered a prize — saltwater taffy — for the bottle that traveled the farthest.
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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