When 11-year-old Brian Dahl threw a message in a bottle into the water in Oxford, Mississippi, in 1989,

he had no clue that it would be the last words he would ever say to anybody. According to a US News story, his family, however, feels that his message was inspired by God.

Billy Mitchell of Big River Shipbuilders first observed a green bottle bobbling in the water next to a barge in April of last year.

According to USA Today, Mitchell, the company’s salvage diver, ‘I’m always that way.’ Driftwood or anything else

unusual is what I’m always on the lookout for. I exclaimed to my friend, ‘There’s a message in this bottle.’

Thirty minutes later, Mitchell took the bottle out of the water and used shish kebab skewers to carefully remove the message within.

He was able to write the names Tahl (near, it was Dahl), 1989, and Oxford, Mississippi, all in a child’s handwriting, even though most of the letter was damaged.

‘I immediately thought, let’s play detective. Big River’s compliance officer, Brad Brabb, told U.S. News, ‘Let’s do this and find this kid.’

A picture of the note that the Big River boys posted was shared 127 times on Facebook. A few days after

the photo was uploaded, Dr. Eric Dahl got a call from someone alerting him to the post. Later, Melanie Parker Dahl left a comment on the article.

‘It’s incredible that it occurred,” Eric remarked. 33 years after Brian tossed it into the river, we receive a message.

It resembles something you may see on TV or read in a fictional book, Eric went on. It was amazing to see Brian’s handwriting from when he was eleven or twelve years old.

After a house accident, athlete Brian, who had previously overcome cancer, died at the early age of 29.‘It was a divine gift.’ Our family prays, and this is an example of God’s providence, Eric remarked.

One of the assignments for sixth grade was the message in a bottle.

His sixth-grade teacher, the 82-year-old Martha Burnett, told USA Today, ‘We had a field trip.’ We threw our bottles into the river, and we didn’t hear

back for a long time,’ Burnett recounted from her Oxford, Mississippi, home. 200 miles later, the bottle floated to Vicksburg, Mississippi, on the Yazoo River.

In order to bring their son’s project home and to meet the workers who found the bottle, Eric, Melanie,

and their son Chris made the trip to the Vicksburg shipyard. They were having a hard time when they found the note at the shipbuilders’ office.

Upon seeing the note, Eric remarked, ‘One thing that jumps out at me is an 11-year-old boy saying ‘please.’’ ‘It really helps to know that something he wrote is bringing strangers together.’

Without a doubt, Brian would have been thrilled to hear that his message was received. Melanie told U.S. News that Brian had a great sense of humor.

Since he most likely had no notion that his family would ever receive it, one could presume that the letter was addressed to a stranger someplace in a far-off nation.

‘Whoever would have thought that this would occur?” declared Burnett. ‘In a way, I believe it revives him.’