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Lost Camera Reunited With Owner After 1,100 Mile Ocean Journey

by Terrence O'Brien on June 15, 2010 at 09:00 AM

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Sergeant de Bruin of the Royal Dutch Navy was scuba diving off the coast of Aruba exploring a wreck on the sea floor when he lost grip on his digital camera, and watched it drift away in the ocean currents. Seven months later, his bright red cam, still in its water-proof plastic case, washed up on the shores of Key West, Florida. Paul Shultz found the Nikon washed up against the rocks 1,100 miles from where it had been lost.

Shultz was amazed to find the camera and its memory card still in working order, and posted the images and video (apparently taken by a turtle that mistook the cam for food) to Scubaboard.com. Members of the community were eventually able to identify the locales as Aruba. Shultz then took to the travel sites Cruisecritic and Aruba.com in hopes that someone could identify the family in the photos.

Eventually a woman contacted Shultz who recognized the children in the photos as classmates of her kids, which led to the reunion of photographer and camera. De Bruin has become fond of telling the story, but -- as he told the Telegraph -- many people are "astonished" to hear Shultz's efforts to reunite camera and owner. Count us among them. [From: Telegraph, via: Neatorama]

Tags: camera, LostAndFound, photography, scuba, scubaboard, top

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