When the captain of a submarine threw a message in a bottle overboard in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, he thought he would never see it again.

But two years and two months later, Commodore Darren White's message was picked up by a father and son walking along Pringle Bay, 1600 nautical miles from where it was dropped.

White, who is captain of the SAS Charlotte Maxeke, told the Cape Times he had been doing exercises with South American navies and decided to...read more here: Message in a bottle washes ashore in Cape Town