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)
Sandisk ‘delighting you as well’? haha
Good to know, I can wash them if they get grubby. 🙂
I have 2 SD’s that are damaged physically with the lock lever dropping out.
Glued some plastic there in place.
I washed a card in the washing machine, 30º, 1 1/2 hours, and then on to the drier for 1 1/2 hours. The pictures were there, the card was clean. It was not intentional, of course.
I’ve put my USB stick through the wash on three separate occasions and it’s still working wonderfully. Thank heavens for flash memory
can the owner post some photos…
Amazing. SanDisk is the way to go into my camera.