Message In Bottle RECOVERED After 39ys

by **J The Kidd** Thu Dec 04, 2008 3:47 pm

A message in a bottle tossed into the ocean off Barnegat Bay has
turned up in North Carolina — 39 years later. The note was sealed in a
Schaefer beer bottle. It was dated August 17, 1969 and read: "If found
notify the North Haledon Fire Co 2."

Mark Ciarmello and his 3-year-old daughter found the bottle along a
beach in Corolla in October. That's about 400 miles from where it was
released.

The Downingtown resident said he got on his cell phone, called North
Haledon and e-mailed photos of the bottle to the firefighters.

No one is sure who tossed the bottle. But firefighters suspect it was
during one of the many fishing trips that they used to take years ago.