The ship’s captain is an experienced diver Jennifer Downer he was exploring the bottom of Michigan’s waterways, specifically the Cheboygan River, when found a message in a bottle that was written in 1926. The bottle was found at the bottom of the river, because although it still had the cork from 95 years ago, it was partially full of water.
dowker he earns his living touring the rivers of Michigan in the United States. He knows perfectly these river routes, but also the secrets that hide under those waters. However, despite his experience of him, he had never encountered anything like what had happened to him a few days earlier.
Jennifer is the owner of Nautical North Family Adventures and on Friday, June 18, she spent the day cleaning the glass floor of her boat, the Yankee Sunshine, diving while it was moored in the Cheboygan River. Suddenly he found a bottle with something in it and when he opened it he discovered it was a message written in 1926.
The bottle, with a cork stopper, contained water and was three meters deep.
The captain and entrepreneur explained to the CNN network last year that the bottle was about 3 meters deep: “At first I thought it was just a cold bottle and then, when I picked it up, when it was still underwater, I could have read the word ‘this’ on the paper it was something like … oh my! We found a message in a bottle. Freddo!”
The discovery took place a year ago and now the story is viral again.
The bottle was two-thirds full of water, but she managed to pull out the handwritten note inside to read the message. It was dated November 1926, 95 years agoand on it was written this text: “Will the person who finds this bottle return this paper to George Morrow Cheboygan, of Michigan, and tell where it was found?”
Jennifer Dowker knows the town of Cheboygan and knew the surname Morrows was common there, so she posted a message on her company’s Facebook account with the idea that a customer would read it and bring it to the message’s author’s family: ” I thought we’d track him down pretty fast and that would be the end. So I forgot it because it was late that night… and I went to bed. ” The next morning the madness arrived: her message had gone viral and there were more than 6,000 people who provided clues as to the possible perpetrators of the message.
Captain of the ship and expert diver Jennifer Dowker.
The captain feared he didn’t have time to investigate so many messages, but he didn’t need to: George Morrow’s daughter, Michele Primeau, contacted her directly. She doesn’t use Facebook, but an acquaintance of her sent her a photo and she immediately recognized her father’s handwriting, even though that note was written 20 years before her birth.
Michele and Jennifer talked for a long time, knowing a little more about that person who threw a bottle aimlessly in 1925. The daughter remembers that, at that moment, his father was about 18 years old: “I see him go out and do it because it was his birthday. I don’t know for sure, but it looks like something he would have done. He was a very sentimental person.”
Part of the note was wet, but it could be recovered.
Michele Primeau’s father died in 1995, but this anecdote reminded him of the good times in his life. Jennifer wanted to return her bottle with the message, but Michele insisted that he keep it: “I thought the right thing to do was to give it to her. She found her and that would keep my father’s name alive.” You will now frame it and show it featured in your corporate store: in return, gave Michele a ticket for the rest of his life so he could ride the Yankee Sunshine.
Source: Clarin
