AND FOUR YEARS LATER, IUOMA WAS STARTED. BECAUSE MESSAGES IN BOTTLES DIDN'(T GET DELIVERED QUICKLY?

[Valentine Mark Herman]

(From today's Times [of London])

"

A glass bottle with a message thrown into the sea 37 years ago in Japan has been found washed up 4,000 miles away on a Hawaiian beach.

It had been cast adrift as part of a school experiment in 1984 to monitor ocean currents. Scrolls of paper written in English, Spanish and Japanese remained intact, Vice reported.

Abbie Graham, aged nine, spotted the mud-caked glass bottle among seashells while visiting Paradise Park in Kea’au. Her father, John Graham, told the Hawaii Tribune-Herald: “I thought it was trash and she thought it was treasure.”

The typewritten notes titled “The Ocean Current Investigation” explained that the bottle experiment was part of a project by the Chiba Prefectural Choshi High School natural science club, near Tokyo.

It said that “this bottle was thrown into the sea off the coast of Choshi, Japan, in July 1984” and asked the finder to tell the school the date and place, as well as the longitude and latitude of the discovery."

France's La Poste delivers mail slightly quicker these days!

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

And "Message-in-a-Bottle" has had several mail art projects here at IUOMA, as well.

In 2010, TicTac in Germany sent out a call,

and "bottles" came her way :-)

Cat-in-a-Bottle was my contribution:

but several sent REAL bottles :-)

Heleen:

Mim:

C.M.Bennett :

Now during this Covid Era, it seems like my mail art from Greece is "bottled up"

in container ships to maybe arrived some many months after being sent...sigh!