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Mass. teen's message in a bottle from 1976 found in the Bahamas

  • Clint and Evan Buffington located a bottled message on a Bahamas coast.
  • Peter R. Thompson, then 14, wrote the note in 1976 for a school assignment.
  • The Coast Guard released the bottle as part of Thompson's oceanography class project from West Newbury.
  • Clint Buffington recalled his brother's excitement: "You're not going to believe what I just found."
  • The brothers contacted Thompson, hoping to return the message almost 50 years after it was written.
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Mass. teen's message in a bottle from 1976 found in the Bahamas

A pair of brothers walking along the coast of a remote island in the Bahamas found a message in a bottle that had been written by a 14-year-old Massachusetts student in 1976.

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Brothers come across message in a bottle penned nearly 50 years ago

The note was written in 1976 by then-14-year-old Peter R. Thompson from West Newbury, Massachusetts.

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Brothers encounter message in a bottle penned decades ago by then-Mass. teen

The note was written in 1976 by then-14-year-old Peter R. Thompson from West Newbury, Massachusetts.

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WCVB broke the news in Boston, United States on Wednesday, April 16, 2025.
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