Lost and Found: 100-Year-Old Message in a Bottle Finally Delivered

Richard Platz sent his SOS to the world in the form of a postcard nestled in a bottle, before he threw it out to sea along Germany’s Baltic Coast

Little did Platz know that it would be more than 100 years before his message in a bottle would be found and delivered.

Discovered by Konrad Fischer, a German fisherman, the bottle was found near the northern city of Kiel last month. Fischer almost threw it back into the sea before noticing Platz's postcard inside, which asked whoever found the bottle to return it to his address in Berlin

Researchers helped identify and track down Platz via the postcards's address, according to the Agence France-Presse. Platz, who was 20 years old at the time, was on a hike with a nature group when he threw the bottle in the Baltic Sea. One hundred years later, a genealogical researcher based in Berlin helped locate Platz's granddaughter, now 62-year-old Angela Erdmann. Read more...