The bottle, tossed into the sea off the coast of Japan in 1984, had traveled around 4,000 miles to Hawaii.
At the top of the once-white postcard was written"The ocean current investigation" in capital letters. Then came the information that the message had been written by the Chiba Prefectural Choshi High School Natural Science Club.
The note read:"This bottle was thrown into the sea off the coast of Choshi, Japan, in July 1984." It asked whoever found it to respond with their name, address, the date and place it was found, along with the longitude and latitude of discovery.
After the 750 bottles were tossed into the sea, members of the club spent the next few years tracking their travels, with bottles washing up in China, the Philippines and the west coast of the U.S. But as sightings dried up, the club disbanded in 2007. The high school's vice principal, Jun Hayashi, said:"We thought the last one was found in Kikaijima. We never imagined another would be found 37 years on,"Present-day students at the school wrote a letter to Abbie last week, after the 1984 note, first discovered in June, finally reached them.
File photo of message in a bottle. A 9-year-old girl found a message in bottle that had been adrift for 37 years.
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