Camera Underwater for over two years... With Pictures....

Whydah

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Went for a water hunt the other day with a couple friends... Got down to the beach, and found myself out about chest deep. Got a few coins on the way out and a small musket ball... Then a big hit, thought for sure it was a can, but this time in the scoop, was a Cannon Camera....lololol.... I was kinda close to one of the guys, so I told him to stop and look at the camera so I could take his picture.... :laughing7: Anyway, I continued the hunt with a bulky camera in my pouch... Got a few more coins... slim pickins in this little area... Also ot a lead solgier, and a V Nickel dated 1890. On my Cleaned Cannon Camera (1).JPG Cleaned Cannon Camera (3).JPG Kite  (3).JPG Kite  (4).JPG Kite  (6).JPG Kite  (10).JPG Kite  (12).JPG Kite  (14).JPG Kite  (15).JPG Kite  (18).JPG Kite Camera (14).JPG Kite Camera (17).JPG Kite Camera (20).JPG Kite Camera (65).JPG way in, I also Kite Camera (74).JPG found a very nice Heavy Men's 14 K Gold Ring with 5 diamonds and some sort of a White stone any ideas? ... I am certainly on a roll this season with diamonds... But that's not the end of the story, I managed to work the Dandisk free after 2 days from the camera. I let it dry out, and plugged it into the slot in my computer.... Bam ....... It still had 152 pictures on the card... I downloaded them, and come to find out, I guess someone had tied the camera to a kite,??? and took some pictures.... Not to sure how they did that??? I also am guessing it wasn't tied to good, or the kite dipped a little to far down, and it went into the water, and I found it over 2 years later...... The dates of the pictures were 9/11/2010... over 2 years underwater and they were still there...wow...... Now I know why I use Sandiisks in my Nikon D 50 & D5000.... Here are a few pictures from the camera, and of the Gold Ring from that day....The last picture is a self portrait of the guy that lost the camera I guess? Anyone know him? If you look good, you can see the reflection of the camera in his sunglasses.... Good luck Hunting.....
 

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Les West Central Fl

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Like the ring, Whoever took pictures with the camera sure lost a nice one.
 

CASPER-2

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2 awesome finds :icon_thumleft:
 

surfnturf

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Strange gets stranger! Detective Whydah!!!!

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Phat Goldie!!!!
 

baywalker

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That is one of the best stories I have seen on here in a long time.
 

fredinbelize

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'That is one of the best stories I have seen on here in a long time'
Agreed!
 

hamiddetecting

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Congratulations!
 

Hag730

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Tying a camera that big to a kite?? I think Wile E. Coyote proved you couldnt do that on Saturday morning cartoons??
 

kiana7

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WTG on that camera and huge congrats on that nice ring:icon_thumleft::icon_thumright:,,HH:hello:
 

Captain PopTop

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Great finds and CooL story !!!
 

wwace

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very cool, print that picture and tape it near the beach entrance, nice ring too
 

RON (PA)

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I have never seen this before. This is amazing. It cleaned up pretty good. Too bad there is probably no way to return the pictures/camera to the rightful owner.
 

leprechaun

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Excellent finds that day Whydah, it was a great hunt.:leprechaun-hat:
 

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