That’s right, you read the headline is correct. Over the weekend a diver, Markus Thompson, found a camera at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, just off the coast of British Colubmia. He salvaged the camera, poked around a little bit (determining that the camera had been dropped into the water in August 2010), recovered the data off the card and, using Google+, found the owner.
Markus’ original post and updates here. The social web doing some good, a photographer getting back some property along with some thought-to-be-long-lost images… But… I’m guessing that all you really want to know is the brand of the card, right?
Funny, although I don’t blame you. Apparently this was a SanDisk Extreme III but, not that it overly matters…regardless what type of card you use, it’s true that many cards/types/brands can survive total submersion in water… now we just know that at least some of them can hang out in salt water for year(s)
Now I know what to say next time someone asks why I choose Canon or why I picked Sandisk cards. 🙂
Haha, strange but true 😀 Really cool how it survived that!
I’ve actually washed (and in some cases dried) CF cards, SDs, and the odd flash drive and have always been able to read my data. These cards and flash units are more robust than they look.
some great sentence structure in the comments – wow!
This isn’t Facebook, and we aren’t 14 yrs. old. Haha.
There’s this camera that I read about earlier this year. Don’t know if its the same article but definitely the same camera.
It was lost for 4 years at sea. All the plastic had eroded away and all that was left was the metal body and sd card which still worked! The man that found it posted the pictures on flickr.com to try and find it’s owner.
http://thefw.com/digital-camera-found-with-photos-still-intact-after-four-years-at-sea/