Tag: LOSTANDFOUND

Share Four years ago, Peter Trayhurn and Geoff Tosio found themselves floating adrift five miles off the coast of Australia, and facing the terrifying possibility that they might never be found. They had been exploring underwater caves when the anchor line on their boat snapped, and the vessel drifted away. Miraculously, Trayhurn and Tosio were spotted by a ship, plucked from the water, and ...

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 ...

Share While you were using Twitter to catch up on celebrity gossip or to share your innermost thoughts with the world, Adam Smith was busy devoting his 140-characters to a far more important cause: finding his long-lost brother. See, a few years ago, Smith's mom informed Adam that his father had a bunch of other children roaming the planet. She mentioned a few names, including one Matthew ...

It turns out that not every cyber-stalker is out to harm you or your child, or to just generally be a creep. No, some use their Internet sleuthing abilities for good, not evil. Of course, malicious cyber-stalking is still the norm, so, to make us feel better, the New York Times has compiled a list of anecdotes about good-cyber-Samaritans returning lost items using the Internet. The article is ...

You've always been taught that crime doesn't pay, but we were a little distressed to learn that, apparently, honesty doesn't either. Paul Leicester, a college student in Merseyside, UK, was out celebrating his 18th birthday last month when he came across a mobile phone on the ground. Leicester picked up the handset and called the last number dialed, which belonged to a friend of the owner, and ...