A 98-year-old message in a bottle has been discovered off the coast of Shetland. Andrew Leaper is now the world record holder for discovering the oldest bottle set adrift. The drift bottle found by Andrew Leaper of the Copious in the North Sea in April this year . A Scottish fisherman has nabbed an unusual world record, after uncorking the oldest message ever found in a bottle. The bottle contained a postcard from June 1914 from Captain CH Brown from the Glasgow School of Navigation. Immensely proud to be the finder of the world record message in a bottle. It was one of 1,890 bottles released as part of a scientific experiment to chart the currents of the seas around Scotland based on where they were located. Leaper donated his finding as well as his certificate from Guiness World Records to his local community-run museum, the Fetlar Interpretative Centre in Shetland.
