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Weird Ways People Used to Communicate, Part II: Smoke Signals and Bottled Messages

Ridiculous History

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What's That Thing About the Titanic?

Message in a bottle found on the west coast of iceland was written by jeremiah burke, aged 19. The message read: 'i am one of them that were wrecked on the titanic' But there was no record of harry wilson on the passenger or crew lists which suggestsed maybe this wasn't really a thing. And so apparently this letter is real, and is now part of the titanic exhibition in the cobe heritage centre. I want to see some sort of museum exhibition with like, a bunch of message and bottle like paper scraps,. That's great tandbe cool.

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