Say What?!: Teen’s Message in a Bottle Travels 1,200 Miles in Two Years

WASHINGTON – A message in a bottle that a Washington state teenager dropped into the ocean while sailing in the South Pacific was found two years later after floating 1,200 miles to Papua New Guinea.

Niki Nie, of Battle Ground, said she was 17 years old when she and her family were sailing in the South Pacific. On Jan. 8, 2019, she tossed a message in a bottle into the ocean to commemorate crossing the equator on the way to the Marshall Islands.

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