If you want to send a message that might travel the seas, there’s a right way and a wrong way, Jace Tunnell writes.

Byron Miller was recently walking on a beach in the Bahamas and spotted something. A thought went through his head. "Can't be another note in a bottle," said the vacationer from Ocracoke Island, N.C.

Two messages in a bottle written by World War I soldiers more than a century ago washed up on a remote Australian beach, according to a report. Debra Brown and her daughter Felicity discovered two ...