Imagine depending on the ocean's currents to receive a text.

Okay, it's not the most convenient form of communication, but imagine how cool it would be to receive a mysterious message in a bottle that traveled for years at sea.

For centuries, people have been writing messages, placing them in these drift bottles and tossing them into the sea in the hopes that someone would find them.

Throwing out messages in a bottle is a rather romantic thing to do, but believe it or not, some incredible ones have been found over the years.

Let's delve in to some of the most amazing messages ever found in bottles.

You're listening. You're listening.

You're listening.

You're listening to be amazed.

A big catch is every fisherman's goal when they go out to sea, but for some Costa

Rican fishermen, their big catch in May 2005 was a bottle which

inside was a message saying please help us could a message be any clear the

fisherman quickly alerted the authorities and what was found later was nothing

short of remarkable the SOS message was sent by a group of 86 migrants, mostly Ecuadorian and Peruvian teenagers

who'd been abandoned by smugglers when their boat got into trouble. Their message in a bottle

was found floating near Cocos Island, which is a World Heritage Site off the coast of Costa Rica.

The group was said to have been trying to reach Guatemala to cross the border to Mexico.

Before abandoning them, the smugglers stripped the boat of radio and communication equipment,

but clearly they didn't expect that the group would ingeniously find this unconventional

communication method.

Luckily, due to the fishermen finding the message, Park wardens were alerted and managed to find and save the seasick migrants.

Now, how serendipitous would it be if you wrote a message and sent it adrift only for it to surface near your birthplace 151 years later?

In 1935, a Japanese seaweed collector came across a bottle in the village of

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