A friend recounted a story of tossing a message in a bottle in Massachusetts and then getting a call a few years later from a couple who discovered it while walking on the beach in the Bahamas (or possible an island further south in the Caribbean, I forget)…
He is certain that the bottle traveled with the Gulf Stream; across the North Atlantic, down the western European shores, past the Canaries and West Africa and back across the Atlantic into the Caribbean. I don’t know a thing about these currents but want to know if its possible the bottle simply traveled southward along the Atlantic Seaboard and never traveled in the roughly clockwise direction of the Gulf Stream. Is it most likely that the bottle actually crossed the Atlantic twice or could it have followed some other path or shipping lane?