A boat captain who found a 95-year-old message in a bottle while diving managed to track the writer's daughter down - and on Father's Day.
Jennifer Dowker, from Michigan, US, was scuba diving in the Cheboygan River on Friday to clean the bottom of her Yankee Sunshine boat when she saw the little green glass bottle.
Having always had an interest in collecting items of the sort, she reached out for the bottle, which was 10 feet underwater, and saw the letter 'this' written on a note inside.
"It was kind of like 'Holy Smokes! We've got a message in a bottle here. Cool!'", she told CNN.
Despite almost all the bottle being filled with water, the note was still legible.
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Once she reemerged, Ms Dowker unravelled the note, dated November 1926 and which read: "Will the person who finds this bottle return this paper to George Morrow Cheboygan, Michigan and tell where it was found?"
The captain, who owns Nautical North Family Adventures, thought it could be quite easy to find some Morrows from Cheboygan.
So she took to Facebook and shared pictures of her incredible discovery on her company's Facebook page.
"I figured we'd track it down pretty quickly and that'd be the end of it," she said. "So I kind of forgot about it because it was already late that night ... and went to bed," she said.
By the time she woke up the next morning, the post had been shared more than 100,000 times and had more than 6,000 comments.
The post was spotted by a man said to have no relations but who became so passionate about the cause he decided to track down the writer's family.
That is how George Morrow's daughter, Michele Primeau, got in touch with Ms Dowker two days later to say her dad, who died in 1995, had been the one to send off the bottle.
"I don't do Facebook, and I'm just flabbergasted at how this has grown," Ms Primeau said.
"So he's been gone a long time, but it was kind of cool because all this happened on Father's Day weekend," she said.
Ms Primeau decided it was right for the captain to keep the bottle as she felt that would have been her dad's will.
Ms Dowker now intends to have the bottle and its special note framed alongside a picture of George Morrow dating back to the year when he sent the note.
Meanwhile, Ms Primeau will have a "lifetime pass" on the Yankee Sunshine, the captain said.
