An Alaska man’s hunt for firewood ended with the discovery of a different kind after he came across a 50-year-old message in a bottle.
Tyler Ivanoff found a letter written in Russian, and posted an appeal for a translation on his Facebook page.
It transpired the letter had been written by a sailor on board the Russian ship Sulak on 20 June 1969.
The story was picked up by Russian media, which tracked down the letter-writer, Captain Anatoly Botsanenko. Read more