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)
So wild! Hope the photos on the card are worth keeping.
Wow. Great story, thanks for sharing!
Man, if that was one of my cameras it would be up on the wall/a stand as a piece of art, it looks totally cool….. although, if it was my camera, I would be horrified to have done that to it LOL.
Haha, great photo’s!
Last week in Maui I flooded a water housing with a 60d, the card I was using was a Lexar platinum II 32gb. I was able to retrieve the data on my clients mac book pro a few hours after flooding. When I got home to Oahu a few days later the card was unreadable, and green stuff was coming out of it. Maybe only the SanDisk are water proof.