I have always found it very fascinating to throw a bottle into the sea with a message inside it, just to see if it reaches to someone and whether I'll get a reply. But it is still a dream for me.
Not like this four-year-old girl whose wish was fulfilled after she got a cute reply.?
Taylor Powell was on a vacation in Spain when she threw a bottle with a message into the sea. She then received a reply from strangers in Russia after 20 days. By then, the bottle had travelled more than 3,200 kilometres to a Russian river.?
The girl who hails from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, put a picture of herself in the bottle along with a note that read, 'If you find this picture, please respond with a name of your country and a picture.'
She threw the bottle while she was on a boat to Santa Susanna, near Barcelona on May 19.
On June 7 Taylor¡¯s father, Ritchie, received a message from a couple saying that the bottle made its way to Moscow. The Russian couple named Sasha and Alex, sent a photo of Taylor¡¯s note and informed him that they found in Moscow¡¯s Moskva River.?
'On our holiday in Spain, Taylor sent a message in a bottle and it made it all the way to Russia where people have replied to her,' Ritchie wrote on Facebook.
"However it has happened my daughter believes mermaids took it there. It¡¯s a pretty magical story for her.?When I told Taylor someone had replied to the message, her face lit up. She was so happy," the Daily Mail quoted Ritchie as saying.
Someone finding a note that too 3,200 km away was truly magical for the little girl. When the father asked the couple to send a proof he received a pin of their location.?
National Oceanography Centre experts believe that the bottle travelled around the bay of Biscany and west of Ireland before crossing the Shetland Islands and the North Sea.?
Dr Adrian New, a scientist at the National Oceanography Centre, said that it was possible for the bottle to have travelled around Spain, past Scotland to reach Russia, however, its journey should have been longer.
"From Spain there is a generally northwards current called the Shelf Edge Current (SEC) which runs along the upper regions of the continental shelf break.?This is where the shallow shelf sea waters get suddenly deeper and plunge down typically from 100-200m depth to 4000m depths or so.
The SEC is usually in water depths around 500m or so.?This could take the bottle northwards along Portugal, around the shelf break in the Bay of Biscay, then up through the Rockall Trough west of Ireland, then up to the north of Scotland and Shetland.
"Here it could then either turn southwards into the North Sea and possibly transit into the Baltic and then arrive in western/southern Russia, or it could continue north-eastwards along the north-western coast of Norway and from there arrive in Northern Russia,"?he told the Telegraph.?