Bottle mail miracle: Heringsdorfer and Americans make friendship!

Bottle mail miracle: Heringsdorfer and Americans make friendship!

What an impressive story from Heringsdorf! Almost ten years ago, Jörg Wanke threw a piece of bottle into the sea during a cruise between Madeira and Gran Canaria, and recently Clint Buffington found this message on a uninhabited island of the Bahamas. The two men now had the opportunity to get to know each other by video count and talk about their common passion, the sea and the message in the bottle. Wanke, a professional pilot, and Buffington, musician from Utah, were able to exchange their experiences in this 30-minute conversation and feel the sun in the heart.

The bottle that Wanke and his wife Cornelia had written after a nice evening covered almost 6,000 kilometers. Buffington, who has already found over 140 bottle items, even remembered his first blue bottle, which came from a sister ship of the "Star Flyer". This magical connection across the oceans is something very special for both, says Wanke, who also notes that he is often in the USA and that a personal meeting in the future could well imagine. A common concern that connects the two.

A call about social media

After Buffington found the bottle, he started a call on social media to make contact with the senders. About a report in the Ostsee-Zeitung finally succeeded in to connect with the Wanke family. Their story is not only romantic, but also significant in terms of contemporary historical history, because the tradition of the bottle mail goes back to the 19th century.

another adventure of the Wankes

In the meantime, the Wanke couple has thrown a new bottle mail from the Heringsdorfer pier into the Baltic Sea in order to perhaps tell a similar story again. If you look at the current developments and the joie de vivre of people, it becomes clear that the bottle mail is not only a piece of paper in a bottle, but also a symbol of the connection across oceans and cultures. A nice thought that encourages us to dream.

Especially the stories of large game hunters and beach goods collectors who come across the find of bottle items show how hope of seeing everyday life can enrich. These small capsules of the time are like poetic messages from another life, just as they are described in the works of authors such as Joachim Ringelnatz and Jules Verne.

In today's digital world, it is all the more gratifying to see that the magic of the bottle mail does not fade and continues to bring people together.

For the future, it remains to be hoped that more and more such stories will be written, as [ZDF] (https://www.zdfheute.de/panorama/zehn-jahne-spaeter- also describes it appropriately. It shows us that every throw of a message in a bottle has the opportunity to create a completely new connection - no matter how far it has to travel.