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....
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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. On my way in, I 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,
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and took some pictures.... Not to sure how they did that
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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..... Cleaned Cannon Camera (1).JPG Kite Camera (40).JPG Kite Camera (74).JPG Cleaned Cannon Camera (3).JPG Kite  (3).JPG Kite  (9).JPG Kite  (12).JPG Kite  (16).JPG Kite  (18).JPG Kite Camera (7).JPG Kite Camera (9).JPG
 

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Subterranean said:
I think your lead soldier is as follows: made by Britiains, set number 9114, 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) dismounted with horses, an eight piece set, yours being a standing trooper. Missing his right arm and the plume on his helmet, circa 1930. I hope this helps. Sub

Awesome research.... Thank you for the help.... I have quite a few more that I have no idea about....on another note about that camera... I have a few clues as to maybe where the person may work that owned the camera.... Just didn't want to share all of the photos at this time....
 

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I think you will have a very cool lost n' found story for us all in the near future! Way to go. You can always send pix of your lead soldiers and I will dig for ID's on them. I enjoy that! Sub
 

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awesome story....thanks for sharing
 

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Great post. I think the news would enjoy running this as a human interest story. Bet it gets picked up by the national. Thanks for sharing.
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What a great story!
 

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