Taipei, April 23 (CNA) A bottle thrown into the sea by a Dutch couple in Taiwan has traveled across the Pacific Ocean to be found on the coast of the United States eight years later, a Seattle TV station reported Friday.
According to the report, local resident Catherine Shaw found the bottle, which contained a message from the couple, on a beach near Ocean Shores, a city in Washington State, a few weeks ago.
"We opened it and it was from 2002 and was thrown in the ocean in Taiwan... A couple from Holland were on a cruise ship. He was an officer on a cruise ship and they had gone to Hong Kong. They thought it would be fun to throw a couple of bottles into the ocean, " Shaw was quoted as saying.
"Every time we sail together we throw a few bottles into the sea and hope someone will find it and write to us, " the couple said in the letter, which had been laminated so that it would survive longer in the ocean.
Shaw emailed them and found out that they are Niels and Marije Dekker, who have married and now have an 11-month-old son. She said she plans to keep corresponding with the couple and hopes to meet them in the future. (By Chris Wang) ENDITEM/J