World's oldest message in a bottle - A message in a bottle that has been scooped up from the sea after 98 years in Scotland has set a world record, officials have said.
Fisherman Andrew Leaper found the bottle, which was released in 1914, in his nets in April while sailing east of the Shetland Islands, which lie off Scotland's northern coast.
Guinness World Records confirmed on Thursday that the find is the oldest message in a bottle ever recovered, beating a previous record by five years, Fox News reported.
It was released in a batch of 1,890 bottles in a government experiment to map the undercurrents of the seas around Scotland.
Inside each bottle, a postcard asks the finder to record details of the discovery and promises a reward of a sixpence.
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