Tyler Ivanoff is a schoolteacher in Shishmaref, Alaska. In August, he was picking berries and gathering driftwood at the shore when he found a bottle that was sealed up, and had paper inside. It was plugged up pretty well, but he managed to open it and found a letter written in Russian. Ivanoff went online to get translation help.
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“Heartfelt greetings!” began the letter, dated June 20, 1969.
The sender, Capt. Anatoliy Botsanenko, explained he was from the Far Eastern fishing vessel, the Sulak, and provided an address in the then-Soviet city of Vladivostok for a response — perhaps one day.
“I wish you good health, long life, and happy sailing,” concluded Botsanenko’s letter.
The message had traveled 1200 miles, but more surprisingly, it survived for fifty years in the ocean. The next thing to do, of course, was to harness the power of the internet to find Botsanenko. Read how that turned out at Public Radio International. -via Damn Interesting
(Image courtesy of Tyler Ivanoff)
Source: neatorama