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Message in bottle sent from Rhode Island makes it across Atlantic to Portugal
Ted Wayman
Reporter
Message in bottle sent from Rhode Island makes it across Atlantic to Portugal
BEN: AND TONIGHT THEY'RE TRYINIG TO TRACK DOWN THE PERSON THAT WROTE IT. OUR TED WAYMAN REPOR.TS >> LAST FRIDAY I WAS OUT SPEARFISHING. FOUND A BOTTLE WITH A NOTE IN IT AND BRIGHT IT HE.OM >> Reporter: TAKE A LOOK AT THE MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE IT READS. IT IS THANKSGIVING. I AM AND13 IM VISITING FAMILY IN ROYAL AND I'MRO F VERMONT. CHRISTIAN SANTOS USE TO LIVE IN BOSTON. TEN YEARS AGO HE AND HIS FAMILY MOVED TO POTUGAL CHRISTIAN LOVES TO SPEARFISH THATS WHAT HE WAS DOING WHEN HE FOUND TH BEOTTLE. NEAR HIS HOME IN THE AZORES. IN FACT HE HAS THIS MESSAGE FOR THE SEERND >> I WOULD LIKE TO TELL HIM I FOUND IT AND WHAT I WAS DOING AND WE ARE GOING TO BE FRIENDS FORIF L REPORTER: OUR BEST ESTIMATE THAT THE NOTE WAS WRITTEN AROUND THANSGIVING 2018 WEVE TRIED TO CONTACT THE PERSON WHO WTERO THE MESSAGE IN THE BOTTLASE DID CHRIIASTN AND NO LUCK WE WILL KEEP YOU UPDATED ON THE NEW ENGLAND TO PORTUGAL MESSAGE INA BOTTLE S
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Message in bottle sent from Rhode Island makes it across Atlantic to Portugal
Ted Wayman
Reporter
A message in a bottle that was sent from Rhode Island a few years ago traveled more than 3,200 miles across the Atlantic Ocean and was picked up in Portugal.The person who found the bottle, Christian Santos, says he and his family used to live in Boston before they moved to the Azores, an archipelago off the Portuguese mainland, 10 years ago."Last Friday, I was spearfishing and I found the bottle," Santos said. "I got it, went out (of the water) and opened it, and there was this paper in it."Santos brought the message home, read it and then showed it to his mom. The message reads: "It is Thanksgiving. I am 13 and visiting family in Rhode Island. I am from Vermont. If found email ."Santos says he sent an email to the address provided in the note, but he hasn't received a reply back yet."I would like to tell them I found it, where it was and what I was doing, and we're going to be friends for life," he said.Based on the email address given, the message was likely written around Thanksgiving 2018.Sister station WCVB sent an email to the address provided in the note, but like Santos, has yet to receive a reply back.
BOSTON —

A message in a bottle that was sent from Rhode Island a few years ago traveled more than 3,200 miles across the Atlantic Ocean and was picked up in Portugal.

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The person who found the bottle, Christian Santos, says he and his family used to live in Boston before they moved to the Azores, an archipelago off the Portuguese mainland, 10 years ago.

"Last Friday, I was spearfishing and I found the bottle," Santos said. "I got it, went out (of the water) and opened it, and there was this paper in it."

Santos brought the message home, read it and then showed it to his mom. The message reads: "It is Thanksgiving. I am 13 and visiting family in Rhode Island. I am from Vermont. If found email [address redacted]."

Santos says he sent an email to the address provided in the note, but he hasn't received a reply back yet.

"I would like to tell them I found it, where it was and what I was doing, and we're going to be friends for life," he said.

Based on the email address given, the message was likely written around Thanksgiving 2018.

Sister station WCVB sent an email to the address provided in the note, but like Santos, has yet to receive a reply back.