Overview

• Finder Malte Bayer says his family used several AI tools in September to partially decipher the weathered note found on Sylt in 2018.
• Regional coverage and widespread sharing in English social and neighborhood networks led to contact with the sender.
• Adam Tyndall, now 28, said he tossed the bottle into the Atlantic as a child during a holiday in Agon-Coutainville, Normandy.
• Bayer and Tyndall held a video chat in which Tyndall confirmed authorship and showed an old photo consistent with AI age estimates.
• The bottle is believed to have drifted roughly eleven years before washing ashore on Sylt, and a possible visit to Tyndall in London remains under consideration without set dates.