Woman Gets Message From Father in Bottle - 26 years after her father died at sea

Associated Press ^ | 08/07/03 | Staff Writer

[bedolido]

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- More than 26 years after her father died at sea, a Norwegian woman was shocked to receive a message from him in a bottle.

The crinkled note, with her father's handwriting in red marker pen, aroused "powerful feelings" in her, Guri Abelsen said Wednesday.

Abelsen said her father, Ola Abelsen, had told her he wrote a message in a bottle which he had thrown into the sea from his fishing boat, Utvik Senior, in February 1977.

Later that month, the boat sank with Abelsen and eight other men on board, after disappearing off the Norwegian coast.

"Best regards, the Utvik Senior of Tromsoe, in the sea this Feb. 2, 1977," the message said.

"It was like a sign of life from the Utvik Senior," Guri Abelsen said.

The bottle was found by a vacationing couple on a beach in Finnmark, northern Norway, in 1978. The couple's daughter found the note when she rummaged through their belongings after they died recently, and decided to write to the Abelsen family enclosing the bottled message.

The families of the Utvik Senior's missing crew were unhappy with a 1978 inquiry into the boat's disappearance that blamed bad weather for the sinking.

Copyright 2003 Associated Press. All rights reserved.

[MinuteGal]

"Woman Gets Message from Father in Bottle"

Sure hope it was a Jack Daniels bottle. The claustrophobia must have been hell.

Leni

[Puppage]

[mhking]

Just damn.

If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[Chad Fairbanks]

My question is - how did they get him into the bottle in the first place?

[scab4faa]

"Woman Gets Message from Father in Bottle"

"Get me the f*#@! out of here!"

[Consort]

He's obviously a genie. Make three wishes.

[Sacajaweau]

Now this doesn't make a lot of sense, does it??

If her father told her that he had written a note in the bottle, then died when the boat sunk, there were no survivors to tell the story about the note in the bottle?? OR...what am I reading wrong??

[Unknown Freeper]

"Get me the f*#@! out of here!"

You are so baaaad. rofl

[Consort]

  Tromsoe

[null and void]

Radio?

People do silly things all the time.

I can see putting a message in a bottle to my kids, just to see how long it takes to get to them, then letting them know it's on the way...

[Eaker]

Abelsen said her father, Ola Abelsen, had told her he wrote a message in a bottle which he had thrown into the sea from his fishing boat, Utvik Senior, in February 1977.

Later that month, the boat sank with Abelsen and eight other men on board, after disappearing off the Norwegian coast.

[dead]

Kind of a boring message though, Ola.

[null and void]

Ya sure, doncha know.

[cherry_bomb88]

ROTFL...yes, something about Subject Verb Order doesn't mix on that one!!! Good Catch!!!

[Revelation 911]

I wrote my kids a message in put in a time capsule at work along with several other employees notes - Ive told them about it - I'll be about retirement age when they open it

not sure what theyll do with a 35 yr old slim jim and bag of chips

[null and void]

not sure what theyll do with a 35 yr old slim jim and bag of chips

Should of packed twinkies. They'd still be good...