Message in a bottle gives US teenager a surprise

A teenager from the United States got some unexpected news when she received a handwritten letter from a fisherman saying that her
message in a bottle had been found in Spain.

Terra Gallo and her sister put messages into bottles and tossed them into the ocean while visiting their aunt on Monhegan Island in
Maine three years ago.

Galo, now 14, studied maps of ocean currents and discovered her message traveled roughly 3,000 miles.

Gallo’s message asked that whoever found her bottle put their own message inside with hers and send it back out to sea. The
fisherman said he complied with her wishes in his letter.