Message in a bottle tossed in N.Y. washes up in France
NEW YORK -- After 29 months and nearly 3,600 miles, a message in a bottle tossed in New York City has ended up all the way across the Atlantic, reported CBS New York.
Brooklyn-based artist George Boorujy threw the bottle into the water off of Staten Island in October 2013.
He received an email last week from a 65-year-old painter, named Brigitte, who said she and her husband found the bottle while walking on a beach in France.
The bottle discovered in France contained a drawing of a cormorant, which Brigitte called "magnifique."
"I was shocked because I had totally forgotten about it," Boorujy told CBS New York Radio.
Boorujy has dropped about 20 bottles in waterways around the city as part of his project, New York Pelagic. Each wine bottle contains an original drawing of an open ocean bird, and is sealed with cork and wax.
Boorujy says he hopes the project spreads a message about the environment.
"I definitely want people to think about how much stuff we do throw away and how much of our detritus enters the larger world," Boorujy said.
Other bottles were recently discovered in Virginia Key, Florida and Sheffield Island, Connecticut.