{"id":591646,"date":"2019-02-15T16:24:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T16:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said a message in a bottle found on a Texas beach was one of 7,863 released about 56 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>NOAA Fisheries said\u00a0Candy and Jim Duke were walking along Padre Island National Seashor"},"modified":"2019-02-15T16:24:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T16:24:27","slug":"texas-couple-find-56-year-old-message-in-a-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/02\/15\/texas-couple-find-56-year-old-message-in-a-bottle\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas couple find 56-year-old message in a bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said a message in a bottle found on a Texas beach was one of 7,863 released about 56 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>NOAA Fisheries said\u00a0Candy and Jim Duke were walking along Padre Island National Seashore near their Corpus Christi home when they found the bottle near mile marker 22.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/02\/6790222229125_9880300744850.jpg\" alt=\"Message in bottle man\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"3541448276\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A faded orange note inside the glass said \u201cBREAK BOTTLE,\u201d but the couple instead elected to carefully\u00a0extract the bottle\u2019s contents\u00a0without breaking it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1522970855640-1\" data-google-query-id=\"CPje0OW7veACFXgx0wodFugGqw\">\n<p>NOAA said the bottle was one of 7,863 released between February 1962 and December 1963.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The agency said the bottles contained postcards and instructions for the finder to mail the cards with the date and location of the discovery in exchange for a 50-cent reward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe releases were part of a study to determine the role that water currents play in the movement of young shrimp from offshore spawning grounds to inshore nursery grounds,\u201d NOAA said.<\/p>\n<p>The Dukes said the bottle will have a place of honour among their collection of treasures found during beach strolls.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear whether NOAA Fisheries gave them their 50-cent reward.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said a message in a bottle found on a Texas beach was one of 7,863 released about 56 years ago. 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