Overview

• Jörg Wanke alongside his wife, Cornelia, cast a cobalt-blue bottle into the Atlantic on October 23, 2015, between Madeira and Gran Canaria.
• The bottle drifted nearly 6,000 kilometers over almost ten years before Utah musician Clint Buffington discovered it on an uninhabited Bahamian island.
• Buffington tapped social media before relying on a report in the Ostsee-Zeitung to locate the Wankes, arranging a remote reunion.
• Buffington says he has discovered more than 100 message bottles over the years, making him a self-described expert on this maritime tradition.
• The Wankes launched a second message bottle from the Heringsdorf pier into the Baltic Sea to continue their low-tech communication ritual.