Underwater camera lost in 2007 comes up on shore in Taiwan 6 years later

[rgregory1965]

Lost camera found 6 years later, 6,000 miles away

Underwater camera lost in Maui in 2007 comes up on shore in Taiwan 6 years later. Owner tracked down and sd card and photos still viable...

This is awsome.

 

[Dillard]

thats crazy!

 

[runnah]

It returned to it's birthplace to breed.

 

[S.Pierce]

Man, she better take that free vacation!

 

[Moodyshield]

We have just had a local story of an underwater camera lost in Little Cayman and ending up nine months later the Galverston in the US. The guy who found it tracked the owner down. Nice touch.


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[johnwar]

i wanna see the picture of the camara and the photos it took it's really amazing

 

[annamaria]

Wow that is amazing! I wonder how the photos fared?

 

[hamlet]

That's some luck.

 

[glun]

That's amazing! If everything is still working inside, I bet the camera manufacturer can make a commercial out of this.

 

[Juga]

It returned to it's birthplace to breed.

Like a salmon camera should do

 

[pthrift]

That's pretty neat. I'm a diver also; we found a gopro underwater this summer that had apparently been lost a couple years back; charged it up and it worked fine. It was returned to the owner.

Here we thought that was impressive in a rock quarry...definitely pales in comparison to a 6k mile trip across the ocean!

 

[DougGrigg]

That's amazing! If everything is still working inside, I bet the camera manufacturer can make a commercial out of this.

from what I heard the casing and camera were both not salvageable due to salt water degradation but the camera itself was almost sealed shut with this acting as a tomb for the SD card. (if this is the same story)

I do wonder though, how on earth was it tracked back? writing on the card? can you store an electronic fingerprint on SD cards? if so i must do this! haha

Image below:

http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/technews/kmg-630-underwater-camera-630w.jpg

 

[robbins.photo]

Lost camera found 6 years later, 6,000 miles away

Underwater camera lost in Maui in 2007 comes up on shore in Taiwan 6 years later. Owner tracked down and sd card and photos still viable...

This is awsome.

I guess after reading what Steve had to say recently about camera's confiscated by concert security, I'm just wondering if this one came back filled with pictures of shark genitals.. lol

 

[Mr_McBride]

that's an awesome story.