She has been working in journalism for seven years. Getty A French man recently came across a message in a bottle that was tossed into the Atlantic Ocean 26 years ago as part of a school project.

Smeared with paint and sealed with a glob of plaster, the small glass bottle contained a rolled-up piece of paper, marked with inky writing. As Hume wrote on Instagram, he couldn’t make out much of ...

"I can walk the beach just about every day, and I do," Jaynes said. "I kind of feel that the message-in-the-bottle thing is the sea saying, 'Thank you.'" The note was written by fifth-grade ...