While fishing, they found a message in a bottle 50 years ago: this says

An Australian fisherman is looking for the author of a message in a bottle found in the waters of southern Australia fifty years after it was written, he told a television channel on Wednesday.

Paul Elliot and his son Jyah found the bottle while they were fishing on the west coast of the Eyre Peninsula, he explained to the Australian Broadcasting Corp.

The man was looking for the author of the message, Paul Gibson, who described himself in the note as a 13-year-old British boy traveling on a cruise ship off the south coast of Australia, from Fremantle to west to Melbourne to the east. .

The bottle could not stay afloat for 50 years on the south coast because "the ocean never stays still," explained government oceanographer David Griffin, who suspected the bottle had been buried years on a beach until it is flooded again by a storm.

"It has remained in the water anywhere in the ocean, in the south of Australia, it is impossible for it to stay at sea while moving from one country to another. 39, one place to another for more than a year or two, "he explained.

The author claimed to be "1,000 miles east of Fremantle". However, it was unclear whether this referred to 1,600 kilometers (1,600 miles) of Fremantle, which would have included a trip south along the west coast before heading to the west. is.

Hundreds of thousands of Britons emigrated to Australia in the 1960s for trips subsidized by the Australian government. The children traveled for free.

However, a quarter returned to Britain in a few years, when life in Australia did not meet their expectations.

* AP