A family who were stuck above a powerful 40ft waterfall ended up being rescued because they put an SOS message in a bottle. Hikers discovered the desperate message and summoned help after Curtis ...

A family of three stranded at the top of a 40-foot waterfall in central California turned to an old trick when needing rescue: a message in a bottle. Curtis Whitson, his 13-year-old son Hunter ...

Holsenbeck, of Durham, has made a number of plastic bottle waterfalls. Her largest, “Purified” A River in the Desert,” was an exhibit in the Ellen Noel Art Museum in Odessa, Texas, and ...

A conservation worker gains a new friend after finding a message in a bottle on one of PNG's most far-flung islands, two years after the bottle was thrown by an American teenager as she sailed ...

He put the note in a green water bottle, carved "help" into its side, and tossed the message downstream. Todd Brethour and Tony Ramage are with the California Highway Patrol Air Operations Unit.

A California family who got stranded on top of a waterfall managed to get help after creating their own version of a message in a bottle.. Curtis Whitson, his son, Matthew Whitson, and his ...