Solved after 47 years: The mystery of the North Sea message in a bottle
Published: 6/11/2025

Two women in Sweden found a message in a bottle on a beach, leading to the discovery of its writer, a fisherman named James Addison Runcie from Cullen, Banffshire. The note, dropped into the North Sea in 1978, was penned by Jim's former crewmate Gavin Geddes. The heartwarming story of this decades-old message in a bottle link Scotland and Sweden, delighting all involved.