Message in bottle found after nearly 4 decades

The bottle was tossed in New Jersey and has turned up in North Carolina

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updated 8:25 p.m. ET Dec. 2, 2008

NORTH HALEDON, N.J. - A message in a bottle tossed into the ocean off Barnegat Bay has turned up in North Carolina — 39 years later. The note was sealed in a Schaefer beer bottle. It was dated Aug. 17, 1969 and read: "If found notify the North Haledon Fire Co. 2."

Mark Ciarmello and his 3-year-old daughter found the bottle along a beach in Corolla, N.C., in October. That's about 400 miles from where it was released.

The Downingtown, Pa., resident said he got on his cell phone, called North Haledon and e-mailed photos of the bottle to the firefighters.

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No one is sure who tossed the bottle. But firefighters suspect it was during one of the many fishing trips that they used to take years ago.