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原文传递 Family Reconnected With Son's Message In A Bottle, Thanks To Shipyard Workers

题名：	Family Reconnected With Son's Message In A Bottle, Thanks To Shipyard Workers
正文语种：	eng
作者：	FRANK MCCORMACK
摘要：	Thirty-three years ago, students in Martha Burnett's sixth grade class penned handwritten letters, rolled them up, slipped them into bottles and sealed them with wax. The classmates later field-tripped from Oxford, Miss., to below Sardis Lake and tossed the bottles into the Tallahatchie River. This past spring, more than three decades later and a few hundred miles downstream, a letter penned by one of those students turned up on April 5 at rest atop a dredge float in the Yazoo River Diversion Canal in Vicksburg, Miss. A team from Vicksburg-based Big River Shipbuilding was salvaging the dredge float, which is akin to a small barge. Billy Mitchell, a salvage diver and surveyor with River Services Company who was doing contract work for Big River Shipbuilding for that project, said there was something about the bright green bottle that piqued his curiosity. "I'm always looking for stuff like that," Mitchell said. "I said, 'This has a message or something inside it,' so I reached and grabbed it. You could see the writing on the letter through the bottle. My buddy said, 'Man, I almost kicked that back in the water.' I'm sure glad he didn't. I mean, who finds a message in a bottle?" Mitchell carried the bottle aboard mv. Cecille Hintson, grabbed some kabob skewers and began carefully easing the letter, weathered and fragmented, out of the bottle.
出版年：	2022
期刊名称：	The Waterways Jouranl
卷：	136
期：	23
页码：	3,12-13