Six-Years-Old Girl's Message In A Bottle Unexpectely Arrives New Zealand

Keely Reid of age at 6 years old, tossed a plastic water bottle into the Moray Firth in the northeast coast of Scottland when on a holidy with her grandparents, hoping that the tide could carry it to the coast of Norway. But something turned out to be surprised when James Wilson of Whangamata in New Zealand where is 20,000 miles faraway, also a six-year-old, picked up the discarded bottle on the beach and discovered the message inside.

It is estimated that to find its way to New Zealand in such a short time the bottle must have travelled an average of 425 miles per day at almost 18 miles per hour.

Yet, experts in marine science at the Fisheries Research Station laboratories in Aberdeen are beliveing there must have been human intervention.

"As a scientist I would usually hedge my bets and leave room for some possibility but there is absolutely no way the bottle could have made it to New Zealand on its own, it must have been picked up by somebody," said Dr Bill Turrell.

"There is no way it could have been picked up by some freak weather system - things just don't cross the equator. I don't like to shatter the poor girl's imaginings but there is no way it could happen."

Then who brought the bottle to the Oceania?

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