100 Year Old Message in a Bottle Washes Up on Beach in German Town

The bottle is one of about 1,000 that British researcher George Parker Bidder released into the North

Sea before becoming the organization's president. The bottles was used to study the movement of sea currents.

"We were very excited," Guy Baker, a spokesman for the biological association, told the network. "We certainly weren't expecting to receive any more of the postcards."