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A message in a bottle sent by children in North Carolina has been found by two brothers on a beach in the west of France after two years at sea.

Thiago and Ethan Rouzeau were walking with their father on the beach in Noirmoutier (Vend茅e) on November 5 after a stormy night when they caught sight of something in the sand.

鈥淚 saw something shining, picked it up and pulled the seaweed from it, then I saw it was a bottle with a note inside,鈥� the boys鈥� father Benjamin Rouzeau told TF1.

鈥淲e thought it was a pirate鈥檚 bottle,鈥� said his son Ethan.

The boys鈥� lucky find turned out to be a message from the other side of the world that would put them into the national news.

The note inside the bottle revealed that it was sent in 2021 by a girl called Colbie, a former student at Summit school in North Carolina.

It began:

鈥淗ello! It鈥檚 your lucky day! You have found one of our letters in a bottle!鈥�

It went on to give the contact information of the girl鈥檚 teacher, Mrs Schambach, who had been using the bottles to teach her pupils about the ocean currents since 2013.

The bottles were then put into the Gulf Stream 60 kilometres from the shore by a sea captain.

鈥淔our different times I鈥檝e just been shocked when there鈥檚 an email from abroad that says they鈥檝e found our bottle,鈥� Mrs Schambach told in 2017.

Since then six more of her bottles have been found across the Atlantic coast of Europe, from Ireland to Portugal.

Mrs Schambach has since retired from teaching but was delighted when Thiago and Ethan spoke to her by a video call.

鈥淓ven though this all started as a science experiment, it has ended up as an international friendship,鈥� she told them.

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