LONDON --It was scooped up from the sea after 98 years, and now officials say a
message in a bottle discovered in Scotland has set a world
record.

Fisherman Andrew Leaper found the bottle- released in 1914 - in
his nets in April while sailing east of the Shetland Islands, which lie off
Scotland's northern coast.

Guinness World Records confirmed Thursday the
find is the oldest message in a bottle ever recovered, beating a previous record
by five years.

It was released in a batch of 1,890 bottles in a
government experiment to map the undercurrents of the seas around
Scotland.

Inside each bottle, a postcard asks the finder to record
details of the discovery and promises a reward of a sixpence. Unfortunately for
Leaper, the coin no longer exists.

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