Message In A Bottle Found One Year Later After Crossing the Atlantic On February 10, 2025, Amy Bisterzo, 43 and her son Lorenzo Bisterzo, 10, tossed a glass bottle into the Atlantic Ocean near Nassau, Bahamas. Amy explained, "Inside was a note that Lorenzo, our son, had written. He wrote a note saying the date, where it was from, and he also put my WhatsApp number on it and his. As time passed we forgot about it." 4,000 miles away, on February 12, 2026, Maria Enes, 49, was walking her dog on Vila Chã Beach, near Porto, in Portugal. She came across several dead and injured Puffins near a pile of sticks. While checking on them, and being able to rescue three, she found the bottle. Maria, a teacher, described the moment of finding a message in a bottle as being a "childhood fantasy". Maria added, "As it said 2025 and it was so new I thought it was from the area and I took it home with me. The bottle was intact, it only had a dent in the bottle cap and had very few marine traces. I took the paper with tweezers and I was astonished that it came from the Bahamas. Exactly one year had passed. I thought it was awesome and I called the number in the note." Amy, originally from the UK, but now living in Old Fort Bay, Nassau, said, "I was in the kitchen, just locking up to go to bed, and a random number from Portugal called me. Then a strange photo popped up with someone saying 'I got your bottle.' All I could see was what looked like material, and a bottle, and scissors; and it actually freaked me out so I immediately blocked the number." "Then I decide to look at the photo again, and I zoomed in, and I saw Lorenzo's writing." When Amy realized it was Lorenzo's writing on the message, she immediately unblocked the number. Amy said, "I shouted upstairs to Lorenzo 'someone found our bottle'. Because it was so long ago, he didn't know what I was talking about, and then I showed him. The whole family was just completely mind blown, it actually felt like magic." Amy added, "Then I started to communicate with Maria and she sent voice notes and videos, and very quickly I realized this woman was so kind and lovely." Amy thought the bottle would never be found when they first threw it. But they are glad they did it as they have created a friendship with Maria since then. "I never thought it would be found, let alone almost to the year exactly, let alone go so far, and also to be found by the perfect person.", said Amy. "It was sort of an activity to do with my son and give him some excitement, but in my adult mind I knew it was highly unlikely to be found. Of course when we first threw it we were so excited to imagine what might become of the bottle and where it would go. But honestly as time went by we completely forgot about it." Maria said she is hoping they can meet her in Vila Chã one day so they can throw a bottle together.