Why is it that messages in bottles tend to drift towards shores as opposed to stay in the middle of an ocean?

Question

I’m assuming they tend to drift towards shores because people find those messages, but I don’t know what percentage of messages are never found because they’re still drifting in the oceans.

In: Physics

Answer 1

Actually no, people didnt find those mesaages and once they made an study and throw several in an island and no one found one until several decades later