Monday, November 28, 2011

camera(canon 1000D) lost at sea for over a year is returned to the owner through social media.

The name of the good Samaritan who found the canon 1000D digital camera at the bottom of the pacific ocean is Markus Thompson.Markus Thompson is a naturalist and aspiring photographer. He said that he found the camera while he was scuba diving in deep bay near British Colombia.Taking the camera home with him, he was able to salvage the sanDisk extreme III SD card inside the water logged canon 1000D.In the SD he found 50 photos of a firefighter and his family.
He decided to look for the owner of the camera.He posted pictures of the camera itself and the ones found in the SD on google+.The pictures found in the SD indicated a firefighter, wife and daughter on vacation.
"Approximately 50 pictures on the card from a family vacation. If you know a fire fighter from British Columbia whose team won the Pacific Regional Firefit competition, has a lovely wife and (now) 2 year old daughter — let me know. I would love to get them their vacation photos," he posted.
The social network detectives started scouring through the pictures found in the canon 1000D digital camera and comparing faces to those found on websites that covered the event.After much work, the owner was found.
The owner, a firefighter from British Columbia said that the shooter now turned relic was lost in august 2010.
That brings to an end the epic journey of a certain canon 1000D digital camera .Quite an intriguing story but there are two things we must notice here,although the camera is waterlogged and no longer functional but the camera was strong enough to keep the SD safe and the SanDisk extreme III SD was strong enough to keep the photos safe and survive a year in ever  turbulent pacific ocean.
Want to know why the camera was strong enough and why the SD was able to hold the photos after a year in the sea.
meanwhile here are more photos of the camera




To know more about the digital camera you see before you and sanDisk extreme III SD that held this family's vacation photos under the sea for a year, click the links to read.