Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Have you ever sent a message in a bottle into the ocean, hoping one day to hear back from someone who found it? On the Treasure ...

EXPLAIN EMILY. WELL, MARIA, THIS IS A STORY THAT STARTS NEARLY 50 YEARS AGO IN WEST NEWBURY, WHEN A THEN 14 YEAR OLD STUDENT PENNED A MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE AS PART OF A CLASS PROJECT. DECADES LATER, HE ...

Dr. Laurie Levermann Coker usually walks the South Padre Island coast looking for shells and other gifts from the Gulf of Mexico. Recently, however, she found a new treasure: a message in a bottle.

Have you ever sent a message in a bottle into the ocean, hoping one day to hear back from someone who found it? On the Treasure Coast, one former fifth grader's message in a bottle, sent out over 16 ...