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Camera and owner are finally reunited. When a firefighter from British Columbia lost his camera at sea while in holidays with the family he never thought we would see the camera and pictures taken again. Thanks to Google + he did.

Markus Thompson was scuba diving in Deep Bay, outside Vancouver, when he discovered a Canon EOS 1000D camera. The diver took the SD card (from Sandisk) from the camera and tried to open it on a computer, only to discover that he not only could see the images but that the camera had been in the water for over one year.

Thompson used his Google + to tell the story. That's what he wrote:

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 :) (....)

So, some days after Mark Thompson had a reply, stating that the owner could be tracked. More than one year after being dropped into the salty water the camera, not really in good condition, as the picture shows, was found. The positive point is that some 50 pictures from a family vacation are getting back to their owners. Something that would be hard to achieve without the social networks we're using today. And todays "film"...