Matea Medak Rezic was taking part in a beach clean up near the Adriatic port of Polce when he found the 1985 message in a bottle.

The message was written in 1985, 28-years ago, by a Canadian man named Jonathon. He was writing to a woman named Mary and hoped that the pair would keep in touch. Mary never got the letter, though. Every once in a while Mary probably found herself thinking, "I wonder why Jonathan never writes to me anymore?"

Jonathan did write to you, Mary, he just didn't mail the letter. Instead Jonathan rolled it up and sent the message out to sea in a bottle.

"Mary, you are really great person. I hope we can keep in correspondence. I said I would write. Your friend forever, Jonathon, Nova Scotia, 1985," the message in a bottle read.

The woman that found the 1985 message in a bottle posted a picture of the note on Facebook. She told her local newspaper that she would love to get in touch with either Jonathan or Mary.

The Winnipeg Free Press traced the route the 28-year-old message in a bottle took from Nova Scotia to Croatia.

They said the bottle "could have bobbed across the Atlantic, made its way into the Mediterranean Sea, possibly through the Strait of Gibraltar between Spain and Morocco, before floating up the Adriatic Sea to get to the river which brought it to the beach where it was found."

The 1985 message in a bottle is not the oldest floating message ever found. According to the Guinness World Records, the oldest message in a bottle is 98 years old.

The message had been launched in 1914 as part of a government experiment to map the sea's undercurrents. Inside each bottle was a post card asking the finder to describe the details of their find.

Bet a lot of you reading this can't get the Police song "Message in a Bottle" out of your heads. You're welcome.