This is not a fairy tale. But the real events that occurred since time immemorial. A number of stories about the messages being inserted into the bottle and washed out to sea. A way of sending messages that remain memorable in the history of mankind.
Message in a bottle (message in the bottle) is a form of communication "ancient". You do this by placing a letter or a brief message in a watertight tube (can be drums, glass bottles, plastic bottles or containers specifically) and washed out to sea or ocean. Usually the message is not directed at a specific address, because it is indeed able to reach any area depends on ocean currents. Therefore, the use of message in a bottle is usually done in an emergency such as message requests that you please do the ship sank, the ship is damaged, or a person stranded on a desert island.

However, due to ineffectiveness and impressed "chance", sending a message in this bottle was ultimately not included in the formal messaging system. But there are still many people who use it until now as part of entertainment, fun and games. Even the term message in a bottle also has experienced a change of meaning. It's no longer really the message is stored in a bottle, but it contains phrases (terms) of a message conveyed through the media, not directed specifically to the target.

The bottle is a container that is right for ocean conditions. Properties of the materials used in the glass, causing the bottle is not affected by water erosion, salt water damage and is very difficult to disentangle. In addition, the bottle will be sealed watertight and filled with air in it that allows floating in a long time. Because of its floats, bottles will follow the direction of winds and ocean currents, to stop when terhempar to the beach and the mainland.

In history, the first record of the use of message in a bottle has been done in the year 310 BC by the ancient Greek philosopher Theophrastus, as part of an experiment to show that the ocean currents of the Mediterranean Sea is a flow to the Atlantic Ocean.

Then other notes also recorded that Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) the explorer and discoverer of the Americas (New World) using the message in a bottle when his ship was hit by a fleet of ocean storms. He records his journey include a brief report and a special message for the Queen of Spain into a drum, and then threw it into the sea. He hopes that the message could be accepted, although he did not survive the storm.

Then in the 16th century, the British Navy used the message in a bottle to give information to fellow British fleet. The message contains critical intelligence information about enemy positions and state waters. However, since often the fisherman found the bottle and opened the message, the message was leaked intelligence.

Queen Elizabeth I who outraged that intelligence data is often opened and eventually became public knowledge, then set specific rules that message in a bottle belongs to the British Navy and the United Kingdom should not be opened at random, except by special official royal opening message "Uncorker of Ocean Bottles". Violation of these orders is punishable by death.

The use of message in a bottle in most modern records conducted by the "boat people" in May 2005. Some 88 boats these migrants rescued off the coast of Costa Rica after the nearest authorities found a message in a bottle from a fishing boat is docked. Message in a bottle that was fastened by a convoy of refugee ships into a fishing boat passing near them. It contained a brief SOS messages begging them to be saved.

Romanticism Message In Bottle
There is a romantic tale that still remembered the message in a bottle. The story of a pair of human children who initially separated thousands of miles by sea, but finally united in the bonds of true love. Matchmaking that carried a message in a bottle.

Are the Åke Viking, a Swedish sailor who feels very lonely. He worked on a cruise ship that ever sailed around the world. Because of his work on the boat, he did not have time to socialize with life on the mainland.

In 1956, she devoted her longings in a letter. In his message he hopes to find a girl idol of the heart to dipersunting as his wife. He asked who the young woman who found the message to reply to his letter. By chance did he put the message into an old wine bottle and threw it into the middle of the ocean.

Months later, an old fisherman in Sicily (Italy) found that message stuck in his net. He then opened it and read the letter inside. The fisherman brought home a message in the bottle and jokingly showed the letter to his daughter, Paolina. Aroused curiosity and mischief and feel that this kind of game that's fun, Paolina reply letter to address cruise ship companies.
In the months that followed his letter reciprocated, Paolina and Ake Viking and engage in intense correspondence without ever met. Chat correspondence leading romantic things and their relationships increasingly warmer.

Two years later, Ake Viking Paolina take leave to visit in Sicily. Mate was adrift and Ake Viking promised to return again. In the fall of 1958, Ake Viking back to Sicily and apply Paolina at their second meeting. These two lovebirds were finally married in that year. Wow!

The stories Message In Bottle
Many facts are closely related to the message in a bottle. The story smells of science, mystery and romance ... but it is full of humanist feel. Just started with a message in a bottle!

A heartbreaking true story of a mysterious derived from records Chunosuke Matsuyama. He was a Japanese sailor who became victims of a shipwreck with 44 crew in 1784. In the voyage, their ship was hit by a storm and sank in the Pacific Ocean. Matsuyama and number of crew survivors stranded on a remote coral island in the Pacific.

Half desperate to see his colleagues one by one died of starvation, Matsuyama write a tragedy that befell them on top of a bark and then put it into a bottle. After sealing the bottle to be watertight, he threw it into the ocean.

Approximately 150 years later, in 1934, a written message in a bottle Matsuyama swept waves and landed on a sandy beach in the village of his birth. No explanation could answer how the message could reach the village of birth Matsuyama?

Message from the Battlefield
Another oddity comes from the battlefields of World War I. While sailing across the English Channel (Home Channel) towards the front fighter (1914), a British infantry soldier Thomas Hughes who suffered a longing to go home to write a letter to his wife. Inclusion of the letter in a bottle and thrown into watertight sea. Two days later they attacked a convoy of ships and Thomas Hughes were reported killed in the fighting.

Eighty-five years later in the month of March 1999, a fisherman found an old bottle containing a message from the estuary of the River Thames. He read the message and the trip to Auckland, New Zealand to deliver the letter directly to the daughter of Hughes. Princess 86-year-old Hughes was deeply moved. This is the only letter he has received from his father, all his life.

Another story comes from two Australian soldiers during World War I. On the way to combat front in France, they agreed to create a letter to his mother. They put the letter into a bottle and melarungnya into the sea.

Both soldiers were reported killed in fighting in France. But the message in a bottle was discovered 37 years later. The bottle was washed ashore the island of Tasmania in 1953. The letter was delivered to both the soldier's mother and recognize it as a native son's handwriting.

Another message came from a bottle that escaped from the battlefield of Europe-Africa. A message in a bottle found from the coast of Maine USA, 1944. The message contains a brief statement: "Our ship is sinking. SOS did not do any good. Think it's the end. Maybe Will this message get to the U.S. some day "(we ship to sink. SOS is not reciprocated. We were exhausted. Maybe sometime in the future, this message will reach the United States).

After investigation, it turns out the message that comes from boat destroyer USS Beatty (DD-640), which was hit by German torpedo fleet in the sea area west, north Africa and sank not far from the Strait of Gibraltar on 6 November 1943 during World War II.

A Rescue
Not always a message in a bottle late in arriving. As a result of a message in a bottle, a group of rebel actors on board (Mutiny) was successfully captured. It happened 1875 years.

Above the three masted sailing ship (bark) Lennie's Canada, there was a rebellion against a whole crew of a ship's officer. The ship was taken over and the leaves of a lower officer who understood navigation and steering system of the ship. He directed the ship toward the waters of France and told the rebels that they are on Spanish territory. It was the helmsman threw a message in a bottle about the tragedy on board the ship.

Apparently one of the messages in a bottle found and direct the French authorities responded. Still sailing in French waters, the ship was stopped and the whole French navy captured the rebellious crew. The rebels surprised why they can be known insurgency French authorities. The strength of a message in a bottle.

The message "Scientific" in the Bottle
Starting from the habit of sending messages in bottles, finally, a scientific discovery happened. Namely Gulf Stream flow mapping and map the ocean currents (Gulf Stream Map) by Benjamin Franklin. He who first mapped the Gulf Stream flow that complements map ocean currents that essentially used up to now.

A number of experiments have been conducted and concluded that it is very difficult to predict where a bottle drifting in high seas.

There are experiments using two bottles into the sea dilarungkan simultaneously from offshore Brazil. The first bottle drifted for 130 days and was found on the coast of Africa. Another bottle drifted to the northwest during the 190 days and stranded in Nicaragua.

Other studies, proving that the bottle will float on the sea depending on wind speed and ocean currents. It could be the bottle adrift following the direction of the wind, blew over water waves. Or swept the bay and ocean currents that bring the speed of 4 knots as far as 100 miles per day.

Bottle traveling the farthest and longest in the experiment was dubbed the Flying Dutchman bottle (the name as the old legend of a ghost ship floating on the high seas). Thrown the first time in a scientific expedition of German scientists in 1929 in the southern Indian Ocean. Inside was a short message that asks the inventor of the bottle in order to write down the location is found the bottle and then tossed back into the sea.

Experiments prove that the German bottle message was bounced to South America across the Atlantic, then returned to the Indian Ocean and stranded in the waters of Western Australia in 1935. Noted that the bottle the ocean as far as 16,000 miles for 2447 days (approximately 6.5 years) with an average cruising speed of six nautical miles per day.

The most important findings of Benjamin Franklin. When he served as postmaster for the colonies of British America, he realized that the whaling ship captains know the ocean currents better than counterparts from the UK. American ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean is much faster than the British ships to deliver postal package. He also compiled a map based on the knowledge of the sailors and whalers information obtained by dropping a bottle with instructions written into the Gulf Stream ocean (gulf stream) and ask anyone who find him to return the bottles.

Based on this information, he was applying to be a map of ocean currents. He became the creator of the first map of the Gulf Stream and published it in 1770 with his partner, whaling captain Timothy Folger. Copy of the map was lost for nearly 200 years until it was found in France.