Hawaii Sailor Finds Message In A Bottle From Japan (VIDEO)

PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, Hawaii -- A sailor participating in a beach cleanup in Hawaii found a message in bottle that had been dropped in the ocean more than five years ago by a school girl in Japan.

Petty Officer Jon Moore stumbled upon the clear glass bottle Thursday at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai. Inside, he found a note from Saki Arikawa, four origami flowers, and a photo of Arikawa's sixth grade glass in Kagoshima.

The note was dated March 25, 2006. It read, "I wrote this letter because we'll graduate elementary school so I wanted it to be a graduation memory."

The Navy says Moore was among 40 base personnel and 16 students and faculty from a Kauai school who picked up beach trash in observance of International Coastal Cleanup Day.

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Comments

[Maggot451]

03:13 AM on 09/20/2011

This is probably a dark thought, but I really hope that little Japanese girl is still alive since the sunami. It would be cool if the Sailor could find her and let her know he found her letter.

[havok563]

06:01 PM on 09/18/2011

I have always wanted to put a message in a bottle and send it away in the ocean. However I would face so much grief because I threw a bottle in the ocean.

[Joseph Glackin]

12:50 AM on 09/19/2011

I think it would be okay with a glass bottle. My son and I used to collect "sea glass" along the Hudson shoreline of Staten Is. (Upper NY Bay), we made a mosaic table top that was truly beautiful. Glass is silica, it just returns to sand.

[douttfire]

03:00 PM on 09/18/2011

how cool is that?

[Ray Russelburg]

06:18 AM on 09/18/2011

5 years? Clear bottle?

methinks that note would be faded to unreadibility. But then again, I get VERY skeptic toward ANYTHING like this.

[chasealvins]

03:36 AM on 09/18/2011

And, she was able to fling that bottle far enough into the ocean, so that it didn't just wash back ashore? Damn, she's got an arm... someone call the Mets.

[Joseph Glackin]

12:51 AM on 09/19/2011

Catch an outgoing tide, then cross your fingers,
P.S. Nothing will help the Mets.

[consuxmoose]

09:22 AM on 09/19/2011

if freddy coupon the owner would sell the mets,it would be a start

[gevan]

02:44 AM on 09/18/2011

If the message had been dated December 6, 1941---THAT would have been amazing.