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The message was traced back to a Russian sailor.

Tyler Ivanoff was looking for firewood in Alaska when he found a message in a bottle from 1969.

His post soon went viral and it was later established that the letter was written by a sailor on Russian ship Sulak.Tyler Ivanoff found the bottle in Alaska.“It was still dry on the inside and still smelled like wine or whatever, old alcohol. The note was dry,” Ivanoff told BBC.

 

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