Baltic Sea letter in a bottle found 24 years later

MOSCOW: Nearly a quarter of a century after a German boy threw a message in a bottle off a ship in the Baltic Sea, he received a response.
At 13, Russian Daniil Korotkikh, was walking with her parents on a beach when he saw something shiny lying in the sand.
"I saw the bottle and it looked interesting," Korotkikh told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "It looked like a German beer bottle with a ceramic plug, and there was a message inside."
His father, who knows German scholar, translated the letter, carefully wrapped in cellophane and sealed by a medical bandage.
He said: "My name is Frank and I am five years old My father and I travel on a ship in Denmark If you find this letter, please write to me and I'll write back to you. .. "
The letter, dated 1987, included an address in the town of Coesfeld.
The boy in the letter, Frank Uesbeck is now 29. His parents still live at the address of the letter.
"At first I could not believe it," Uesbeck told the AP on the response to Korotkikh. In fact, he barely remembered the journey at all, his father was in fact wrote the letter.
The boy from Russia and the German man met earlier this month via a video link on the Internet.
Korotkikh Uesbeck showed the bottle where he found the message and the letter he put in a frame.
The Russian boy said he did not believe that the bottle actually spent 24 years in the sea: "It would not survive in water for all this time," he said.