Last month while visiting the Bahamas, brothers Clint and Evan Buffington found a message in a bottle buried in some sand on the beach, which had been written in May 1976 by a 14-year-old named Peter R. Thompson from Massachusetts.
The message was part of a school science experiment. The kids in the class wrote their notes asking the finder to let them know when and where it was found and then sealed in glass Pepsi bottles and they were then launched by a Coast Guard ship as part of an oceanography course at Pentucket Regional Junior High School.
Clint and Evan posted a video of their bottle with the note which got the attention of WCVB-TV reporter Emily Maher. She searched around Boston and was able to track down Peter Thompson, who now lives in Leominster MA. Although Peter doesn’t recall writing the message, he remembers taking the oceanography class and says the discovery is surprising given that it's been almost 50 years.
In a social media video, Clint shares how amazed they are by the entire experience. "Since Peter wrote that note, my brother and I were born, grew up, went to school, got married, had kids. And all that time, this message was waiting to be found".