Ahoy there! For a British kid, it wasn't just the stuff of pirate fetishizing schoolboys or even nostalgia pop.

While on a coastal beach in Cornwall, England recently, eight-year-old Stan Rumney found a message encapsulated in a bottle which had traveled 2,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean.

The slimy, seaweed-laden glass container eventually rocked up on the sands of Holywell Bay six months later.

Its sender was a Newfoundland fishing boat out looking for snow crab off. On 4 June Captain Craig Drover — whose four previous bottled messages wound up in Ireland and Scotland — tossed this one overboard his FV Arctic Eagle.

"It's amazing how far a bottle can travel without being destroyed by the elements," said Drover.

Stan's dad Jonathan, from Malabar, Cornwall, said: "It was covered in slime. We opened it up and were really shocked to see how far it had come."