The news in the bottle, thrown in the Gulf of Mexico by the Galveston laboratory, was found by a couple from the Corpus Christi, Texas, in January, 57 years later such as it was thrown into the water.

Candy and Jim Duke spotted the artifact On the state coast of Padre island.

"My husband and I go there almost any Saturday afternoon. We get there before dawn in order to be photographed, and then move down the beach in order to find the treasure, " said candy Duke Chron.com ahhh! "That's where we found the bottle, within the 22 mark."

At first glance, the Dukes had no doubt that the colorless glass container is considered a worthy addition to their collection of bottles.

- This one wasn't colored ... my husband hardly picked it up, " she said. - But I still told him to pick up the phone."

After inspecting the bottle, the Dukes understood, in fact that their discovery has the opportunity to be something special. "My husband looked at him and said,' there's something here, '" said candy Duke.

As it turned out, the bottle with the letter inside was part of the 1962 "drift study" done by the Galveston Laboratory of the U.S. Bureau of paid fisheries, now known as the state marine fisheries service (NOAA). The study was conducted to determine the direction and velocity of the surface waters of the North-West Gulf of Mexico.

"The study was conducted in the 1st days of shrimp management. He looked where they live Mature shrimp in the sea, in front of this, where they live young shrimp, to save. The thought was, if you look at the plane of currents, it is possible to include two", acting Director of the laboratory NOAA Matthew Johnson, doctor of philosophy, said Chron.com ahhh!

Scientists have thrown off within 1,796 bottles through the Western half of the Gulf of Mexico in the direction of a few days between 1962 and 1963, according to NOAA, which is in real time working to obtain the largest number of records of the study of drift from storage outside the state.

"After the hurricane we moved the records to Washington," said Johnson. "But in may 1962, we believe that this bottle actually collapsed."

"Someone mentioned, actually that the last found bottle was in 2000, but we can't confirm it yet," he added.

And the letter inside? Any bottle contained a colorful reddish-orange card, which is partly read:

"These emissions are considered part of the study to determine the role of Aqua jets in the movement of young shrimp from marine spawning grounds to coastal nurseries. People find this bottle, have to fill in the attached postcard and send it by mail in 1 ability. 50 % of the prize will be sent out for any completed return."

Not wanting to beat the bottle to get the news, the Dukes took the relic home and released a Facebook video of how they managed to take out the cork and take out the card.

According to the memo, they sent a postcard to Galveston's lab. "I told them not to send us 50 cents," that candy Duke. However before than to return it, she photographed it for memory. "I'm trying to arrange a shadow box with a bottle and a picture to hang in our home."

In NOAA in Galveston, the card fell into the hands of Johnson, who has since a number one contacted the barons. "We talked about this, and they sent me reports on the results," said candy Duke.

In our days the study of drift in the NOAA rare. "With the development of satellite technology, we no longer conduct a large number of studies of bottles," said Johnson.

Current NOAA plans include the study of growing turtles. - It's for resupply. We travel to Mexico or Florida in order to collect eggs, grow and incubate them, and then publish them back in the environment around", - said Johnson. "We're giving them a push."

NOAA is located at 4700 Avenue U, Galveston,Texas, in the former us army Fort Crockett.