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<p>PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) &#8212; It took about 34 years, but a sailor finally got a response to a message he stuffed into a plastic bottle and tossed into the Atlantic Ocean.</p><p>Then 19-year-old Ron Herbst was a petty officer in the Navy aboard the USS Coral Sea. His message included the ship&#8217;s coordinates, his name, the date and his address. Less than a year later, a couple found the bottle while vacationing in the Florida Keys.</p><p>But Gordon and Cindy Brevik didn&#8217;t try to contact Herbst. Instead, they hung on to the bottle.</p><p>Late last year, they noticed the bottle while moving and contacted Herbst in Pensacola through Facebook. He was stunned and tells <a href="http://on.pnj.com/2jGQ8N4" target="_blank">The Pensacola News Journal</a> that he now plans to donate the bottle to Pensacola&#8217;s Naval Aviation Museum.</p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>Associated Press</p></bylineMeta></div>

Florida man’s message in bottle turns up 34 years later