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)
That is crazy! I can believe it lasted in salt water for that long. The one thing I will say is that FILM wouldn’t of lasted that long! lol
I sell cameras and big time recommend Sandisk Cards as they say right on the packaging that they are more durable. I noticed that is was a Rebal XS so while it could be a Sandisk Extreme, it wouldn’t be an extreme III as that would mean it was a compact flash card and the XS uses SD. But that aside, that is remarkable that images were saved.
weeeewww… how did you find it… it’s an epic
British “Columbia” 🙂