Message in a Bottle Server: Index

The following sites are run by people who will put your message into a bottle and throw it into the sea (or river):

The following sites may work or may not - the people running the sites have not replied to an email in February 2005:

Messages sent using the following server will float around the internet for upto 6 months and will (somehow) be found by other people who've sent messages:

Message in a Bottle Server: Global Internet Sea

Collaboration for a Russian language translation of 'message in a bottle server': click here

The following servers are no longer active:

Found Messages, Press Cuttings, Guestbook

I've received some feedback on bottles that have been found, and there's been some coverage in the press!

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Cloning this site

Do you live near the sea? click here if you'd like a page set-up to run a 'message in a bottle' service as part of this site

External Links

• Memory skipping (stone), shades of a message in a bottle
• www.sai.msu.su/apod/ap020831.html The Voyager spacecraft's message-in-a-bottle, details of.
• www.fromramsgatetothechathamislands.co.uk A flotilla of MiaBs thought to be en-route from England to New Zealand, some with GPS SMS transponders to track progress (map). www.gpss.co.uk/bottle.htm - the people behind the project.
• www.tcmuseum.org/message_in_a_bottle/ Found message in a bottle museum, Grand Turk
• www.hoosiertimes.com/cgi-bin/bottle Online e-message in a bottle service from Herald Times newspaper, Bloomington, Indiana
• http://www.MessagesAdrift.com Message in a Bottle Registry..
• http://sos.arch.ethz.ch An open ended virtual desert island with online message-in-a-bottle and somewhere/somehow a link to get here.
• www.keo.org Send a message into space to return to earth in 50,000 years time. The project will store messages on CD Rom and will include symbolic instructions aboard the spacecraft showing how to construct a CD player, allowing future civilisations to view the messages (if they don't understand the instructions they can always use a travelling microscope, pencil and paper :). The launch has been put back to 2006 to allow messages to be gathered from a cross section of peoples in different countries (end date keeps extending).
• http://saturn1.jpl.nasa.gov/kids/amazing-dvd.cfm A 1997 project that collected 616,400 signatures and stored them on DVD disk carried on the Cassini spacecraft, which is now en-route to Saturn and will go into that planet's orbit in July 2004.
• link to story and pictures of messages found on a beach Louisiana coast. Includes a link to balloon launched messages that have been found.
• link to Readers' Digest article on messages in bottles. From the same group of christian missionaries, and an article on preparing messages in bottles. They recommend using a 40 foot trawler if sending more than 10,000 bottles in one go (the article is similar to one at the Glass Mailman site).
• All about St. Ives, Cornwall (UK), a site focused on the strong visual art sector St. Ives, Cornwall, south west England.
• Kwmap - keyword based internet index - they linked to here

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