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Milo Boyd

Two messages in two bottles wash up in the same week after epic 3,000-mile journey

A woman and two young boys are waiting with baited breath for a response after they found a message in a bottle that had travelled 3,000 miles.

Amanda Tidmarsh was over the moon when she found the note inside the glass receptacle.

It was from a snow crab fisherman named John Graham, who left his email for the finder to contact him.

The 52-year-old, from Brynna, did just that and is now waiting to hear back from the seafarer.

"When I found it I thought it was lovely - got all this way without being smashed. I thought there was something inside it, it's like treasure," Amanda told the BBC.

"I could believe it, it was really special. I text my other son and daughter as they were just as excited as me. It's unbelievable.

"I always joke to my mum that I'm looking for treasure amongst seaweed and I found some."

Amanda Tidmarsh was surprised to find the bottle in among seaweed (bbc.co.uk)

Amanda had been walking along with her two dogs in Ogmore-on-Sea, Wales when she noticed something beneath the seaweed.

She realised it was a wine bottle, covered in barnacles, mussels and seaweed, and decided to pick it up.

Amanda was so excited by the find that she decided to wait until she got home to open it with her son.

Inside was a letter including co-ordinates close to the Canadian coastline, which is 3,000 miles away.

It appears that Amanda's note is not the first one launched from that particular fishing boat to be found on the British Isles this week.

Amanda has spoken of her surprise after finding the bottle (bbc.co.uk)

Oisín and Eoghan O’Doherty, from County Donegal, were on holiday in County Kerry in the Republic of Ireland when they also spotted a bottle.

After their first attempt to retrieve it was blocked by the tide, the boys returned and were surprised to find a handwritten note inside.

It has been thrown overboard from the Arctic Eagle off the coast of Newfoundland in August 2020, the message from crab fisherman Craig Drover was still intact.

The boys have contacted the fisherman and launched their own bottle into the sea.

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