There are really all kinds of wonders in this world. Do you believe it? In 2018, a woman in Australia picked up a bottle of wine on the beach. Five days later, someone offered 250,000 yuan to buy it, but she refused to sell it.
Does this sound a bit incredible? However, this incident did happen in reality. What is going on? Let's take a look together!
Tonya Illman and the bottle she picked up
Tonya Illman, an Australian, lives in the capital of Australia, Perth . On January 21, 2018, Tonya drove to Wedge Island, 112 miles from Perth, with her husband Kym Illman, her son and her son's girlfriend.
Results Shortly after driving to the island, the car broke down. There was no way, everyone had to decide to walk along the beach. When they had just walked a few steps along the beach, Tonya suddenly turned back and looked towards her son's car. She saw something was reflecting next to the tire in the lower right of the car.
then turned back to the side of the car. As a result, after walking to the reflective position, she noticed a glass wine bottle sticking out from the sand near the tires of the car. Tonya thought the glass bottle was simple in shape and it would look good if it was placed next to her bookshelf, so she dug out the bottle.
At that time, Tonya's son's girlfriend poured out the sand in the bottle, but unexpectedly poured out something rolled out from it that looked like a cigarette. This thing that looked like a cigarette was tightly wrapped by a rope, and it was already wet.
That afternoon, after returning home, Tonya's family put the thing like a cigarette in front of the fireplace and bake and dry. After they unfolded the thing, they found that it was a note with a table drawn inside. The text on it was written in German .
Tonia's husband will German . He translated part of it, and the rest was translated with the translation software. After the translation was completed, they saw the content on it that read:
On June 12, 1886, the bottle was thrown off the ship at 32°49' south latitude and 105°25' east longitude. Throwing ground: Bark Boat Paula, Harbor: Port Elsfres, Captain: D (unidentified at the back), on the boat's journey from Cardiff to Makasse. After filling in the information on the back, the discoverer will send the note in the bottle to the German Naval Observatory in Hamburg or the nearby consulate and hand it back to the same institution.
At that time, the Tonya family saw the date of 1886 and thought it was impossible. After so long, how could the notes in the bottle be saved? Later, they checked some information online and found that what the notes said seemed to have a nose and eyes. So with the mentality of giving it a try, they handed the bottle and the notes to experts at the Western Australian Museum for identification.
Results Dr. Ross Anderson, assistant director of marine archaeology at the Western Australian Museum, conducted research with the German Federal Ocean Hydrological Service (BSH) and the National Meteorological Service of the Federal Republic of Germany (DWD), confirmed that the information on the note was completely true. The bottle containing the note was confirmed to be a gin bottle produced by Dutch , which dates back to 1886.
With the help of relevant personnel, Dr. Anderson found a Lloyds Register listed in 1883, and found the name of the ship. Later, in a journal in 1887, relevant historical archives about the ship and the bottle were found.
it turned out that in the 19th century, the German authorities conducted a 69-year-old oceanographic experiment. In this experiment, thousands of bottles were thrown into the sea. The experiment aimed at studying the specific flow of global ocean currents to achieve more efficient shipping routes. According to scientists' inference, the bottle discovered by Tonya is likely to be thrown into the sea and washed into the beach after 6 to 12 months.
The initiator of this experiment was German scientist Org von Neumier. He officially became the first director of the German Naval Observatory in 1876. He is the leader in the drift bottle research project and provides valuable data on ocean currents for experiments around the world.
This experiment threw more than 6,600 drift bottles into the sea, of which only about 662 pieces of information were taken back, but none of the complete bottles were saved. The last information recycling occurred in Denmark in 1934.
Since the bottle discovered by Tonya is almost 130 years ago, this bottle was selected into Guinness World Record in 2018, and is the earliest known drifting bottle containing valid information found in the world.
It was discovered after 131 years and 223 days after it was thrown into the waters of hundreds of miles from Australia.
German Paula sailboat
On January 26, 2018, on the 5th day after the bottle was discovered, an antique dealer from Germany found Tonya and expressed his willingness to bid $20,000 to buy the bottle. After Tonya refused, the dealer then raised the price to $35,000 (equivalent to about $250,000).
However, Tonya still did not agree. She said that there is no plan to sell it at present. She has agreed to temporarily lend it to the Western Australian Museum for exhibition. If necessary in the future, she will not rule out an auction.
This wine bottle was picked up by Tonya on January 21, 2018. Who would have thought that after 5 days, someone would bid 250,000 yuan to buy it? This is really incredible. The editor can only say that this woman named Tonya is really lucky.
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