They got the message.
A New Jersey couple found a letter in a bottle that had been drifting in the ocean for four years, floating more than 3,000 miles from Ireland — and managed to track down the note’s author after an international search.
Frank and Karen Bolger were cleaning up trash along the beach in North Wildwood with their granddaughter, Autumn, on Aug. 16 when they noticed a glass bottle with a note stuffed inside.
“Greetings from Ireland. I have thrown this bottle into the sea for someone to find another day,” read the letter, dated July 17, 2019.
“Maybe it’s traveling to Africa or to Iceland! I’ll never know if someone finds it, but I hope it does,” the message concluded, signed only by “Aoife.”
Bolger shared his amazing family story with IrishCentral, hoping it would lead them to Aoife.
News of the Bellmawr couple’s mission quickly went viral, eventually reaching the letter’s author, Aoife Byrne, from Bray, Ireland, about 15 miles south of Dublin.
Frank and Karen Bolger discover a message in a bottle from Ireland, and launch a mission to find the note’s author. Facebook Karen DiPietro Bolger
The Bolger’s found the message in a bottle while cleaning the beach with their granddaughter, Autumn.Facebook Karen DiPietro Bolger
Byrne’s father, Martin, had watched a segment on a local Irish TV station about the search for Bolger and realized the Irish girl the couple was looking for was his daughter, the Irish News reported.
The father-daughter pair were in touch with the Bolger family, and Byrne sent them a scribbled note to prove his identity as the note’s author.
“I was shaking,” Bolger told WPVI-TV. “I do not believe. I didn’t think we would see him.”
Aoife Byrne’s message was written on July 17, 2019. Facebook Karen DiPietro Bolger
Byrne learned that Bolger found his notes after his father saw a new segment about their search. Facebook Karen DiPietro Bolger
Byrne said that he had been on the east coast of Ireland in 2019 when he found the bottle and decided to send it on a transatlantic voyage.
“I found this little bottle had been washed and I said, ‘I just need to put a message. I wouldn’t expect someone to get it.’ And I threw it right in [the] middle [of the ocean],” Byrne told Bolger, according to a video posted on Facebook.
“I never expected it to reach America, I thought it was either south or north.”
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Source: thtrangdai.edu.vn/en/
