US Edition13-Year-Old Newfoundland Love Note in a Bottle Washes Up on Irish Coast
NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR, CANADA, JUL 10 – The bottle traveled nearly 2,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean over 13 years, linking a Canadian couple's romantic gesture to a community conservation event in Ireland.
- In September 2012, Brad and Anita Squires sent a love note sealed in a bottle from Bell Island, Newfoundland, which was discovered on an Irish shore in 2025.
- The note inside the bottle, dated 14 September 2012, contained a phone number and a plea to call, prompting a group in Ireland to ring it after finding the bottle during a beach clean-up.
- After 4,680 days at sea and traveling over 3,000 kilometers, the message connected the Irish finders with the couple, who had been dating when they sent it and married in 2016, now living in Newfoundland with three children.
- Brad Squires reflected, "We were young in love and now we're older in love," while a representative from the Maharees Conservation Association described the story as remarkable and shared that it inspired others to tell their own tales.
- The discovery and reunion highlight enduring human connections across continents and time, as the couple plans to celebrate their tenth anniversary next year and foster new friendships across the Atlantic.
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A 2012 date between Canadians Anita and Brad was immortalized with a love note thrown in a bottle into the Atlantic Ocean.
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A message in a bottle launched at sea in September 2012 by a Canadian couple was found more than 3000 kilometres further in Ireland.
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