{"id":982167,"date":"2022-02-08T23:13:45","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T23:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/08\/watch-florida-kayaker-finds-message-in-a-bottle-containing-mans-ashes\/"},"modified":"2022-02-08T23:13:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T23:13:45","slug":"watch-florida-kayaker-finds-message-in-a-bottle-containing-mans-ashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/08\/watch-florida-kayaker-finds-message-in-a-bottle-containing-mans-ashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Florida kayaker finds message in a bottle containing man&#8217;s ashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Florida-kayaker-finds-message-in-a-bottle-containing-mans-ashes.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"etRAaLdxaWE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cape Coral kayaker finds message in a bottle with man&#039;s ashes on the water\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/etRAaLdxaWE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 8 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A Florida kayaker said he picked up what initially appeared to be trash in the water and soon discovered it was a message in a bottle that contained a man&#8217;s cremains.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Zimmerman of Cape Coral said he and some friends were kayaking on Sunday in Four Mile Cove when he spotted the object in the water.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was just kind of intertwined with the mangroves, kind of looked like junk,&#8221; Zimmerman told WBBH-TV.<\/p>\n<p>Zimmerman said a closer examination revealed the floating bottle entangled with a &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; balloon contained a written message and someone&#8217;s ashes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Immediately, we realized that this is someone&#8217;s internment vessel,&#8221; Zimmerman said.<\/p>\n<p>The author of the message inside the bottle wrote that the ashes were the cremains of a deceased brother whose birthday would have been Feb. 5.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you receive this bottle, please throw him back in the water,&#8221; the message&#8217;s author wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Zimmerman said he decided not to immediately throw the bottle back into the water because it was poorly sealed and starting to leak.<\/p>\n<p>The kayaker said he is now hoping to get in touch with the deceased man&#8217;s family to help them find a more permanent vessel for their beloved relative&#8217;s remains.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your brother went on a kayaking trip with us, he went with a couple of guys from Cape Coral, and we&#8217;d like to preserve this and let other people adventure with him,&#8221; Zimmerman said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 8 (UPI) &#8212; A Florida kayaker said he picked up what initially appeared to be trash in the water and soon discovered it was a message in a bottle that contained a man&#8217;s cremains. Jeff Zimmerman of Cape Coral said he and some friends were kayaking on Sunday in Four Mile Cove when he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":982169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}