Fill in the Blanks ReadingOnline version Read the article. Fill in the gaps with the right word. by Iryna Grymalska Tkach 1 was ocean included metres surprised found find scientific glass Messages found ! Forty - nine years at sea In 2012 , a man called Norman Stanton found a jar on a beach in New Jersey , USA . Inside , there a message with the date 16 August 1963 . The message said that it was a experiment by Dennis Komsa , aged 12 , from Paterson , New Jersey . The message some questions ; for example , ? Where , when and how did you the jar ? ? Mr Komsa was 61 years old when Mr Stanton contacted him . He was very ! It was also interesting that after almost 50 years , Mr Stanton the jar only about 400 away from the place where Dennis threw it into the . 2 was written found contacted island write motorbike Inside An unexpected friend In 2014 , Dwayne Bowen was riding his on a beach in Queensland , Australia , when he a bottle . , there a piece of paper . It was a letter in French from a six - year - old girl called Camille from French Polynesia , 7 , 000 kilometres away . She was looking for a friend to letters to . After the story was in the news , the girl ? s family Dwayne and his family . Camille was nine years old and she was living on the of Réunion in the Indian Ocean .
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