Msg in a Bottle

[jpkrp]

I know that it is probally against the law but has anybody ever put a msg in a bottle and thrown it over board? If so have you ever found out where it went?

[ger_77]

You answered your own question in your first sentence. It is against the law to throw anything overboard from a ship. It violates the pollution laws and endangers aquatic life. No, we've never done it, but that doesn't mean everyone else hasn't. The notion of a message in a bottle is quite a romantic one, thinking it might have come from some far-away place.

 

Smooth Sailing! :):):)

[Putterdude]

I believe that once you are out some 250 or 300 miles you can do it...inside of that no you are not supposed to do it. I have a recollection of my father finding a bottle when I was a child but no, I have never found one.

[Keith1010]

The ocean is precious. No need to litter the ocean.

 

Keith

[S&S Cruisers 1983]

I know that it is probally against the law but has anybody ever put a msg in a bottle and thrown it over board? If so have you ever found out where it went?

 

I must be really tired tonight! I kept thinking - Why would you want to put MSG in a bottle and throw it overboard??? LOL!

Edited September 8, 2009 by I'm-a-cruise-lover

[yogi2929]

I must be really tired tonight! I kept thinking - Why would you want to put MSG in a bottle and throw it overboard??? LOL!

 

It's OK, I thought it was going to be a thread about smuggling MSG onboard:p.

[chloemonkey]

I know that it is probally against the law but has anybody ever put a msg in a bottle and thrown it over board? If so have you ever found out where it went?

 

My husband did this YEARS ago on the old Pride of America off the coast of Cuba. It was a Dom Perignon champagne bottle and he put his phone number on the message....Anyway, some lady called him about three weeks later off as she had found it washed ashore off the coast of Florida.

 

Again, we were younger then and would think more about being responsible and not littering the ocean...but then we would think about a LOT of things that we did when we were younger!

 

But it was sort of cool that the bottle and message were found and that the person that found it bothered to call and let my husband know where it turned up....

[BruceMuzz]

Part of my job on cruise ships involves throwing people off for mis-behaving.

 

It is illegal most everywhere to throw garbage into the sea. My company - like most - has strict rules about such things.

 

If we see you do it, or another passenger reports you doing it, or our security cameras catch you doing it, I have 3 follow-up duties:

 

--First we self-report to the nearest maritime authority. The standard fine is around US$5,000. That gets immediately charged to your onboard account.

 

--Next my staff escorts you to my office where I give you the bad news about a sudden and early end to your cruise.

 

--We then get you packed up very quickly and escort you and your belongings to the gangway.

[matj2000]

Don't listen to the crazies on this thread because it is not a big deal. I know someone who threw a msg off in the Gulf or Mexico. He got a call about a week later from a person in South Florida.

[Keith1010]

Don't listen to the crazies on this thread because it is not a big deal. I know someone who threw a msg off in the Gulf or Mexico. He got a call about a week later from a person in South Florida.

 

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All ships say that throwing anything off the ship is prohibited.

 

There is no reason to litter the ocean. There is already enough junk that people have thrown in there.

 

Keith

[paul929207]

The ocean is not a garbage dump. Please do not ruin it.

[ger_77]

Part of my job on cruise ships involves throwing people off for mis-behaving.

 

It is illegal most everywhere to throw garbage into the sea. My company - like most - has strict rules about such things.If we see you do it, or another passenger reports you doing it, or our security cameras catch you doing it, I have 3 follow-up duties:

--First we self-report to the nearest maritime authority. The standard fine is around US$5,000. That gets immediately charged to your onboard account.

--Next my staff escorts you to my office where I give you the bad news about a sudden and early end to your cruise.

--We then get you packed up very quickly and escort you and your belongings to the gangway.

 

Thank you for giving us an idea of what happens if/when somebody does decide to put a message in a bottle and toss it overboard.

 

Don't listen to the crazies on this thread because it is not a big deal. I know someone who threw a msg off in the Gulf or Mexico. He got a call about a week later from a person in South Florida.

 

Great attitude - I'd like to be onboard when you throw one over.

 

Smooth Sailing! :):):)

[pg.]

Brucemsuzz, I think the 5,000 dollar fine is more then enough deterrant, I think throwing someone off the ship is excessive. Why not throw off some of the DRUNKS I see on every single cruise??

 

Oh, on edit,, realize,, drunks bring ship more money.. LOL

Edited September 8, 2009 by pg.

[Almost Packed]

HMMM,

didn't i read somewhere that ships are "allowed" to dump their garbage/waste into our precious oceans? but most don't use their "full allowable dumping limits".

 

personally, i don't see throwing a bottle with a message overboard a big deal. it's not like it's broken...and it's not trash...once it floats on to the shore...someone picks it up....and hopefully then recycles it.

 

anyways....yes, i know throwing anything overboard is prohibited. i wonder if the idiots who throw themselves overboard are given that same fine. hmmm. a 5k fine does not seem to deter them:eek:

[sail7seas]

You asked and got very good responses (for the most part).

 

All ships have 'nothing overboard rules'.

 

They mean it!

 

Edited September 9, 2009 by sail7seas

[matj2000]

Do you know how much junk is thrown into the sea from all ships? And not just cruise ships but freighters, cargo, Navy, and almost everything else. The industry wants everyone to believe they are all "Eco-Friendly" but it is all about $$ or saving $. Do you really think they care about a bottle being tossed over? I am sure "Barney Fife" of the sea here will try to scare you by saying he will lock you up and send you Alcatraz, but I doubt that anything will happen..

Edited September 9, 2009 by matj2000

[BillB48]

I was going to respond to this thread earlier but considering the direction it was going, fearing that I might have to make a full confession to Owl Gore;):eek:. Back in the early 80's my daughter threw a message in a bottle off of a ship probably most never heard of, fairly deep in the Gulf of Mexico. About 5 years later she received a letter from some fellow in Florida. Seems to me it southern Florida, but I really not sure now. I would like to conclude with they were married, became wealthy and famous, but that didn't happen. The story ended at receiving the letter 5 years latter and she responded. The End.

 

PS Dear EPA NOAA and all the other intials that may have dog in this fight... We're sorry but the bottle was recycled.... eventually:D.

[sail7seas]

Do you know how much junk is thrown into the sea from all ships? And not just cruise ships but freighters, cargo, Navy, and almost everything else. The industry wants everyone to believe they are all "Eco-Friendly" but it is all about $$ or saving $. Do you really think they care about a bottle being tossed over? I am sure "Barney Fife" of the sea here will try to scare you by saying he will lock you up and send you Alcatraz, but I doubt that anything will happen..

 

 

That's a nice photo in your signature of that fellow and boy standing on such a pretty, unlittered beach. Perhaps your family? To see the beautiful ships in the background must have been a special day of sand and fun at a lovely beach.

 

Wonder if it would be so pleasant if loads of trash from the ocean washed ashore and soiled the sand and water at shoreside? Spoiled it for that young fellow to be able to use 20 years from now with his young children.

Edited September 9, 2009 by sail7seas

[pms4104]

Don't listen to the crazies on this thread because it is not a big deal. I know someone who threw a msg off in the Gulf or Mexico. He got a call about a week later from a person in South Florida.

A little harsh, isn't it, to allude to those who are concerned about preserving our environment as crazies?:eek:

[TrentS]

I know that it is probally against the law but has anybody ever put a msg in a bottle and thrown it over board? If so have you ever found out where it went?

If you want to know what happens, here's a story about what happened to one bottle that was thrown overboard... http://www.usatoday.com/travel/cruises/item.aspx?type=blog&ak=68498607.blog

[HarpHarp]

I know that it is probally against the law but has anybody ever put a msg in a bottle and thrown it over board? If so have you ever found out where it went?

Here's a story in today's news on aol

" A Baltimore teen wrote a message, put it in a bottle and threw it into the ocean. Five years later, his missive turned up on the other side of the Atlantic. Daniel Knopp was 14-year-old high school student when he wrote the short note on June 21, 2004. He had been vacationing at the time with his parents aboard a cruise ship departing Freeport in the Bahamas, according to The Baltimore Sun"

[tgptmp]

I wonder how many people have been fined and thrown off the ship for flicking their cigarette butts into the ocean. People do it all the time. Just like people do it out of their car windows daily. That is just as much of litter as a message in a bottle. It is also one of my pet peeves.

[Keith1010]

I wonder how many people have been fined and thrown off the ship for flicking their cigarette butts into the ocean. People do it all the time. Just like people do it out of their car windows daily. That is just as much of litter as a message in a bottle. It is also one of my pet peeves.

 

Many times people justify doing things because they say others do it anyway so why me.

 

I am just one of those simple folks who obey the rules.

 

I agree. Litter is litter and there is already much too much of it on land and at sea.

 

Keith

[Traveler353]

"THROW THE BOTTLE" It is a tradition of the sea.:D

[cruisegal40]

No flaming here, but I think there was something on the Today show this a.m. about a girl that thew a bottle into the ocean (did not see the whole intereview so not sure if it was from a ship). But it made it somewhere. Sorry should have gotten more details.