By Daily Mail Reporter There are faster ways to get a message to someone, but there's something enchanting about the way one New York teenager delivered a note to its recipient. Connor Corbett-Rice, 15, from Shelter Island, tossed a bottle into the Atlantic Ocean near his home in 2011, as part of school project. Three years later, he received a much faster reply - by email. Cast away: The bottle was sent out to see off the Long Island coastline at Shelter Island, New York Roundabout route: Because of the way ocean currents flow, it's thought the bottle may have headed over towards Europe before floating back westwards towards the Bahamas
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Connor Corbett-Rice, 15, dropped bottle into the Atlantic ocean as part of a school assignment
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His classmates' bottles ended up returning to Shelter Island, New York
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Connor's traveled more than a thousand miles to The Bahamas
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Couple who found it couldn't believe it as ocean currents usually travel in a northeasterly direction from New York
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It's possible bottle traveled across the Atlantic to Europe and back before landing on deserted Bahamian beach
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What a journey: The bottle ended up here in the @placeholder in what some believe could have been a 10,000 mile round trip