During a checkup at a 209-year-old lighthouse in Scotland, an engineer found a message in a bottle that was 132 years old.
At the northern extremity of the Rhins of Galloway, at Corsewall Lighthouse, Ross Russell, a mechanical engineer for the Northern Lighthouse Board, took out some panels from a closet, according to UPI.
Inside the wall, he also noticed a bottle.
Using a broom handle and some rope, Russell and his group were able to fish the bottle out of its hiding spot. Barry Miller, the lighthousekeeper at the moment, helped them open it.
According to the team, the cork was firmly in place and needed to be carefully extracted using a drill.
“If it was a treasure map, we all swore ourselves to silence,” Miller said in jest.
