A college student in Boston was in for quite a surprise after he received a response back to a message in a bottle he cast out to sea when he was 10-years-old.
Max Vredenburgh, a sophomore at Suffolk University, said the message was sent out in a wine bottle at Long Beach in Rockport, Massachusetts, in August 2010.
“Hello my name is Max, whoever is reading this letter please write back,” the letter read. “I’ll tell you a little about myself. I’m 10 years old, I like apples, I like the beach, my favorite colors blue, I like animals, I like cars, and I like outer space. Please write back.”
Vredenburgh’s father texted him on Friday to tell him that he received a response from a man named G. Dubois, who had found the long-lost letter on a beach in southern France.
“I found your message in your bottle on October 10, 2019 on a beach in France, between Contis and Mimizan,” Dubois wrote back. “According to your date, August 21, 2009, it will have taken 9 years to cover the 6000kms that separates us. You had grown a lot during that time: 10 to 19 years old.”
The man also included a map of the location where the message in a bottle was discovered.
On August 21, 2010 I threw a message in a bottle into the ocean from a beach in Rockport, MA. On October 10, 2019 that letter was found on the beach in France. I am mind blown. 9 years. pic.twitter.com/Af2tEwoQtq
— māx (@VredenburghMax) November 8, 2019
The Washington Examiner reached out to Vredenburgh for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
