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95-year-old message in a bottle found in the Cheboygan River
(Detroit Free Press) What started as a Friday night boat cleaning resulted in the discovery of a 95-year-old message in a bottle.
Jennifer Dowker is the owner of Nautical North Family Adventures in Cheboygan, which offers tours and charter services. When a prospective scuba diving client asked to try breathing through a regulator onshore, Dowker invited him to try it as she cleaned the windows on her glass-bottom boat.
While diving in the Cheboygan River Friday night, Dowker said she wanted to find something cool to keep her client interested.
"I went upstream a little bit further and saw the green bottle there and I'm like, 'Oh that looks kind of cool.' So I picked it up and I saw the paper inside, I'm like, 'Oh my gosh this is awesome,'" she said.
After swimming back to the boat, Dowker asked her first mate, Rob Hemmer, to take a picture of her with the bottle to help find the family. ..............(more)
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/06/23/cheboygan-message-in-a-bottle/5318912001/
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