Message in a bottle
A message in a bottle is an empty bottle or other floatable vessel which is filled with a document and possibly other smaller objects to waterproof sealed and in a body of water to be (usually a river or an ocean ) thrown. The transmitter has this hope that the flow flushes the message in a different place on land where they can then be discovered by a finder.
Use
The vernacular combines with the bottle mainly calls for help from castaways who have no other way to ask for salvation. In earlier times, the retrieved with a call for assistance in a Bottle was made with the local authorities, and forwarded the document to the appropriate consul of the country. On long voyages were, for example, exposed by emigrants letters to the folks back home with money for postage in a bottle in the sea, in the hope that the message is found and is passed to the addressee from the Finder by post.
If a message in a bottle sent out today, this is done mostly out of curiosity: In the bottle there is a short message from them as well as his postal address, aim in this case is to get a short message from a possible distant place where the bottle washed ashore. Not infrequently it happens that stamp collectors send out a message in a bottle with a postcard and the expectation back the card with a foreign, possibly valuable stamp.
Scientific use
In particular, in the Arctic, the bottle has been used with success to deliver messages of polar expeditions.
The bottle and its modern successor, the drift buoy, used to determine the directions of ocean currents. Earlier bottles were provided for this purpose with a "bottle- Find List ", which contained the exact time and geographic location of the place where he was handed over to the sea. The Finder has been asked in several languages, for its part, place and time to be indicated and then deliver the note to the hydrographic institute his country. The results were then entered into so-called "bottle- cards ". Example: A suspended by the German brig Marco Polo on August 23, 1873 at 48 ° 11 ' north latitude and 6 ° 56' west longitude by 8 clock bottle, it was on October 26, 1873 by 16 clock in Oudeschild Texel (Netherlands) found (53 ° 3 'North, 4 ° 11' east longitude ). Daily or about 8.3 nautical miles were covered. In 2008, about 3,000 of these units were exposed on the high seas.
Friendly floatees: an involuntary scientific use, a charge rubber ducks, which have gone overboard, see developed.
Bottle as a trademark
The name of a Bottle is a registered and protected trademark. The first rights were registered in 1990 at the German Patent and Trademark Office. More brands for other goods and services classes followed in the years 1991 to 2006.
Records
An entry in the Guinness Book of Records as the most impossible bottle received in 1998 a wine bottle that was thrown in 1993 as a bottle at Hennef in the victory and was found in 1996 in Falmouth ( Maine).
The smallest post -transportable bottle of the world: This entry in the Guinness Book of Records 2001, for a bottle of 25 mm diameter and 95 mm height. It was unveiled by Rainer clutter from Remscheid on 16 March 2000.
The bottle with the longest proven Zustelldauer was a letter, which was exposed in 1903 by a German South Pole expedition in Tasmania, and on March 19, 1955 washed up in New Zealand.
End of August 2012, until then the longest in the sea driven bottle was off the Shetland Islands, north of Scotland found by a fisherman. Researchers from Glasgow had thrown the bottle in June 1914 with nearly 2000 other bottles into the sea. In the bottle, put a postcard and an invitation to the finder to return the card to the Fisheries Board. For a small reward money was promised. The aim was to create a map of the ocean currents off Scotland. The Guinness Book of World Records confirmed that no previously known bottle was longer in the sea.
In March 2014 was then announced that a German Fischer has found from Heike village in Schleswig -Holstein in Kiel Fjord, the now, the oldest message in a bottle as by-catch in his net. The beer bottle contained a postcard that was stuck with two postage stamps from the German Empire and bore the date of 17 May 1913.
Similar procedures
Balloon mail is to send the analog method undirected messages through the air. Balloon mail has the advantage that it can be run from any location on earth and in principle, can reach every place on earth. The launch of a balloon mail is easier to implement, as there is in the air not the surf similar problem.
Even in the space of the bottle were already sent similar messages. Thus, the space probes Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, a gold plaque and the Voyager space probes have a golden data plate on board in the event that they should be even be found by extraterrestrials.
With a time capsule messages or things (coins, chronicles, newspapers, etc. ) can be stored or immured to an unknown, future page.
Bottle in art
A bottle is often used as a stylistic means to entangle the previously uninvolved Finder into an adventure, or as a last resort emergency funds from hopeless, alone is not able to accomplish the main person.
In the literature
- Edgar Allan Poe: The manuscript in the bottle
- Harald Beer: The Message in a Bottle
- Michael Ende: Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver
- Jules Verne: The Children of Captain Grant
- Jules Verne: The Mysterious Island
- Jules Verne: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- Jules Verne: A Deadly Invention
- Anton Schnack: The Message in a Bottle ( poetry )
- Hubert Schirneck: bottle for dad ( children's book )
- Ralf Paul: Hero (Comic )
- Michael Schulte: The bottle of the Lord Debussy
- Wilhelm Pattern: On the Use of a bottle or the detour to the West Indies
- Kirsten Boie: Linnea sends a message in a bottle
- Astrid Lindgren: Pippi in Taka- Tuka -Land ( children's book )
- Klaus Kordon: The Message in a Bottle
- Walter Klier: Message in a Bottle
- Christoph Meckel: a bottle for a Flood
- Enid Blyton: Five friends and a bottle
- The Three Investigators - Secret Message in a Bottle ( Kids - rate thrillers )
- Tove Jansson: Who comfort slipper? (1960)
- Jussi Adler -Olsen: ' salvation. ' Flaskepost fra P. 2009
- Otfried Preußler: News from the robber Hotzenplotz ( alleged bottle )
In the film,
- Fritz Lang: The Spiders
- Walter Ulbrich: Two Years Holiday (1974 )
- Message in a Bottle - The beginning of a great love
- Michael Herbig: Lissi and the Wild Emperor
- Star Trek: Voyager: Message in a Bottle
- Caprona - The Forgotten Country
In the music
- Reinhard Mey: studio album in a bottle with the eponymous song from the 1998
- The Police: Message in a bottle
- Sandra Lüpkes: Flotsam - The mysterious message in a bottle
- Susan Schubert: bottle from Hawaii
- In Extremo: Message in a Bottle
In the theater
- Sandra Lüpkes: Wiegand lugworm and the mysterious message in a bottle, children's musical
Further meaning
- Bottle eV in the IWT also the name of a German-language newspaper of the women.
- One person Librarians ' Message in a Bottle is a publication of the Professional Association Information Library
- The Pirate Party Germany calls her news magazine also " bottle".