The amazing story of a camera and it's underwater adventure.

Diver Marcus Thomson found this camera during one of his dives in Deep Bay, BC and to his surprise there was an SD card still inside with all the photos intact. Later on he published a few photos of the camera at his Google+ account with the following message

For Sale: Canon EOS 1000D

Description: only used underwater once, in the Pacific Ocean, for approximately one year.

Actual story: found off the end of a wharf in Deep Bay, BC while I was diving on a job for the harbour. I removed the SD card, cleaned it up, stuck it in a card reader and after being underwater in a corroding camera since August 2010 - it works! 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 :)

There are other clues on within the pictures - I think we should be able to track them down (not sure he'll want the camera back tho).

For Sale: Canon EOS 1000DDescription: only used underwater once, in the Pacific Ocean, for approximately one year.
Actual story: found off the end of a wharf in Deep Bay, BC while I was diving on a job for the harbour. I removed the SD card, cleaned it up, stuck it in a card reader and after being underwater in a corroding camera since August 2010 - it works! 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 :)
There are other clues on within the pictures - I think we should be able to track them down (not sure he'll want the camera back tho).

A few days later and with the help of social media and blogs he actually managed to find the owner of the camera who turned out to be a Delta Fire Fighter.

All these were of cource possible due to social media and the great photographyc community over at Google+. This is another proof that technology has changed the game of photography and it affected not only the way we take photographs but also how we work and communicate with each other, as part of a large comminuty.

Check out the whole story at this Google+ page. 

Cheers

Stratos