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Social networking in its oldest form
Over the last two decades, Harold Hackett has sent out over 4,800 messages in a bottle from Prince Edward Island, Canada's smallest province along the Atlantic coastline.
Every message asks for the finder to send a response back to Hackett, and since 1996 he has received over 3,100 responses from all over the world.
In this First Person account, Hackett talks to the BBC's Franz Strasser about the items people have sent him and the unexpected side effects from his hobby.
Most watched/listened
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TV station evacuated live on air
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Cellar opened to reveal 'apocalypse'
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Why they call it 'Tornado Alley'
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'I was pretty lucky I suppose'
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US troops join collapsed school search
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One-minute World News
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'We thought we were dead'
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Storm chaser: I felt like crying today
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Huge tornado hits Oklahoma City
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'Massive tornado coming towards us'
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Will Israel bomb Iran?
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Ray Manzarek 'a stellar musician'
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How the Oklahoma tornado was formed
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Apple 'avoided $1m tax per hour'
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All mod cons in Ghana's building boom
First Person
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Playing flute to escape death camp
Arn Chorn-Pond played the flute as a child to escape death in a Khmer Rouge labour camp.
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Sacks on the brain
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Identical twins caring for the dying
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Healing the hearts of men and gorillas
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'No bitterness'
