Nova Scotia man’s message in a bottle washes ashore 28 years later

A Nova Scotia man's message in a bottle finally washed ashore after 28 years at sea.

Croatian kite surfer Matea Rezik, 23, was clearing debris on the banks of the Neretva river when she found a half-broken bottle stuffed with a plastic-coated note.

"Mary, you really are a great person. I hope we can keep in correspondence. I said I would write," the short message reads. "Your friend always. Jonathon. Nova Scotia 1985."

It is not known where Mary is from or how the two friends know each other.

Rezik posted a photo of the note on Facebook, hoping to track down either Jonathon or Mary.

"Message in a Bottle! From Canada to the Neretva River estuary for 28 years!!" she wrote alongside the photograph.

The Canadian Press tried to outline the bottle's likely 28-year journey:

"If the message in a bottle had been launched from Nova Scotia nearly three decades ago, it could have bobbed across the Atlantic, made its way into the Mediterranean Sea, possibly through the Strait of Gibraltar between Spain and Morocco, before floating up the Adriatic Sea to get to the river which brought it to the beach where it was found."

According to Guinness World Records, the oldest message in a bottle ever recovered was one found last April: a fisherman off the northern coast of Scotland found a note which had been at sea for almost 98 years.