Jyah Elliot and dad Paul made the remarkable discovery on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula during a fishing trip. The note describes the then journey of a 13-year-old boy travelling on a cruise ship along the southern Australian coast from Fremantle in the west to Melbourne in the east. Now Jyah is searching online for the author, Paul Gilmore, a British man who would now be 63 years old. Email webnews@mirror.co.uk(Image: Carla Elliott)David Griffin, a Australian government oceanographer, said the bottle could not have remained afloat for 50 years off the south coast because "the ocean never stays still". Another message in a bottle thrown out to sea by a little girl in Kent was found on the Dutch coast.

Source: Daily Mirror July 17, 2019 08:35 UTC