When it had been retrieved, your camera saw better days.
(Credit: Markus Thompson)Social media and a little of amateur sleuthing have reunited a Canadian firemen using the camera he accidentally dropped to the foot of the ocean throughout a household vacation at least a year ago.
Stephen Wood was sure he'd stated your final goodbye to his Canon Eos 550d Digital rebel if this ended up from his hands in to the Deep Bay from the new england of Vancouver Island last summer time.
The photo that brought your camera to its owner.
(Credit: Stephen Forest, via Markus Thompson)"We figured your camera and also the pictures were gone. We did not even bother attempting to retrieve it," Wood told CNET today. "It had been on if this went within the water, and [it had been] brine, and also at high tide, I believe it's roughly about 60 ft deep there. It had been like 9 o'clock during the night therefore it was dark." As well as that Wood and the wife were built with a baby with you.
Conditions, quite simply, were hardly well suited for a gadget-retrieval operation, so Wood recognized that he'd seen all of the the cam he'd received like a wedding gift from his firemen pals.
Until now, when he received a bizarre call from FireFit Canada, a business that sponsors firemen fitness occasions by which Wood has participated.
A diver named Markus Thompson, he was told, had just found a crusty camera at the end the sea, retrieved the photos from the Sdcard, and published these to Google+ having a plea to the web hive mind for help locating the owner.
Actual story: found from the finish of the wharf in Deep Bay, BC as i was diving (finishing a biological survey) within the harbour. I removed the Sdcard, washed up, stuck it inside a card readers and after being underwater inside a corroding camera since August 2010 - it really works!
Together with pictures from the battered camera, Thompson published three shots retrieved in the 2GB SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash. Thompson's Google+ fans approached Canon having a serial number, dropped pictures into Search, and recommended analyzing EXIF data. But ultimately, it had been among the saved photos--a bag using the FireFit logo design stitched on--that brought to FireFit Canada, and also to Wood's identification.
"The photographs, getting spent 440 days around the sea floor, happen to be reunited using the digital photographer and also the family. I'm thrilled to have caused your way to in which the photographs belong!" Thompson authored inside a Google+ update.
Inside a thank-you note to Thompson, Wood authored that "seeing the images brings tears once we really had forgotten what we should were missing by not getting them."
Wood and the wife intend to thank their camera's rescuer personally soon, and obtain your camera and Sdcard back to allow them to provide them with a warmer, much more comfortable home "inside a glass display box somewhere within our house."
But ultimately, the firemen is less struck through the camera and data's survival compared to social networking's role within the story. "I am talking about, return seven, eight many this could haven't happened," he stated. "We did not have such things as Google+ and Facebook in those days. Posting pictures in the wharf... that could have been your personal only option."
Shannon Wood, actually, became a member of Google+ just today. Guess who among the first folks her Circles is going to be
After losing this Canon camera towards the sea, Wood bought a different one much like it.
(Credit: Markus Thompson)Because of CNET readers Loannis V. for that story tip.
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