Couple Finds 55-Year-Old Message In A Bottle On Texas Beach
- 5 years ago
A couple in Corpus Christi, Texas recently found a 55-year-old message in a bottle on the Padre Island National Seashore.
A couple in Corpus Christi, Texas recently found a 55-year-old message in a bottle on the Padre Island National Seashore. It's a place they frequent to search for beach glass and other interesting objects, so they were quite thrilled when they found this particular treasure. According to NOAA Fisheries, the note inside was actually a postcard asking that the finder provide information about where and when the bottle was found then mail it in. NOAA reports: "The bottle is one of 7,863 bottles that were released in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico from February 1962 to December 1963 by scientists at the Galveston Laboratory of the U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries (now known as NOAA Fisheries)." They were part of "a study to determine the role that water currents play in the movement of young shrimp from offshore spawning grounds to inshore nursery grounds."
A couple in Corpus Christi, Texas recently found a 55-year-old message in a bottle on the Padre Island National Seashore. It's a place they frequent to search for beach glass and other interesting objects, so they were quite thrilled when they found this particular treasure. According to NOAA Fisheries, the note inside was actually a postcard asking that the finder provide information about where and when the bottle was found then mail it in. NOAA reports: "The bottle is one of 7,863 bottles that were released in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico from February 1962 to December 1963 by scientists at the Galveston Laboratory of the U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries (now known as NOAA Fisheries)." They were part of "a study to determine the role that water currents play in the movement of young shrimp from offshore spawning grounds to inshore nursery grounds."