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An unusual message in a bottle was recently found on a remote Canadian island.
The discovery was announced by Sable Island National Park Authority in a Facebook post on May 23. The small island is located in Nova Scotia waters.
In a statement, park officials said the bottle was found by Mark Doucette, an archaeologist with the Potlotek First Nation, a Mi'kmaq tribe.
“The message is heavily erased, but we were able to discern that the bottle was thrown into the sea on January 14, 1983, from a supply vessel located near Sable Island,” the message said.
Speaking to Fox News Digital, Parks Canada spokesperson Jennifer Nicholson said staff noticed a strong odor when they discovered the bottle.
Archaeologist Mark Doucette found a bottle with a message from 1983 on Sable Island, an isolated island off Nova Scotia. (Sable Island National Park and Preserve via Facebook)
“Well, first of all, you could still smell the gin!” she recalls. “Even after 40 years, it hadn't gone away.”
The genie had damaged some of the ink on the letter, but the writing was still barely legible. Nicholson noted that the paper was damp from being in the bottle for four decades.
“Over time, much of the message could be made out and traces left by the pen could be seen,” she added.
The letter contained little information about the ship it was sent from, so park staff had to do some investigating.
Park officials are searching for crew members of the British supply vessel that launched the decades-old time capsule. (Sable Island National Park and Preserve via Facebook)
“It was a little hard to make out the name of the ship at first. You could tell it ended in 'Sea Hunter,'” Nicholson said.
“We did a bit of digging and one of the archaeologists found out that there used to be a supply vessel here called the Wimpey Sea Hunter. It was a British supply vessel built in Devon in 1982.”
She added: “The names of the crew were also written on the back. We have not been able to find any of them since. But if they are out there, we would be glad to hear from them!”
The bottle also contained a 1974 two-dollar bill featuring a young Queen Elizabeth.
“Items like televisions and refrigerators, especially refrigerators, were hung on the coast.”
“The Bank of Canada replaced the $2 bill [with the $2 coin] in 1996, and some of our Sable team had never seen a $2 bill before,” Nicholson said.
Similar bottles often wash up on Canadian shores. Nicholson said Nova Scotia typically sees one message in a bottle found per year.
Sable Island National Park and Preserve is located approximately 160 nautical miles from Halifax, Nova Scotia. (Getty Images)
“A lot of them date back to the 1980s,” she said. “The oldest find my colleagues found was from a ship sailing from the UK to North America in the 1930s… it was really impressive.”
In addition, park staff have seen “almost everything” wash up on the shore, Nicholson said.
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