Divers Find An Old Camera Lying On The Ocean Floor, Then They Saw The Pictures

[Music] but before we start please make sure to subscribe to m r tv and hit the bell so you never miss any upload from us also leave a like right now divers find an old camera lying on the ocean floor then they saw the pictures losing something incredibly meaningful and important like a camera or photo album can feel devastating most of the time there's no other option than to move on however once in a blue moon a long lost item makes its way home under the strangest of circumstances this is one of those stories when conducting research divers from a canadian university discovered a long-lost camera on the seafloor from the looks of it it had remained there for years if not decades while it was strange enough to find a camera on the bottom the divers never thought it would work but believe it or not it turned on and they could not believe the photos they found on the morning of may 13 2014 a diving team from the marine ecology department at simon fraser university in british columbia canada prepared to head out into some pretty deep waters you see the team wanted to conduct a research dive to study the waters off the coast of banfield near vancouver island while the dai team had initially planned to simply take some notes on oceanic wildlife their goals that day quickly changed as the team loaded up the boat and headed out onto the deep blue sea they had no idea what the ocean depths had in store for them specifically the team wanted to dive into the cold waters to study the many variations of sea stars that call the area home by taking a large group out there the divers hoped to shed light on their interesting behavior and numbers not only that but some of the divers also plan to capture a few sea stars to study them back in the school labs however once on the sea floor something embedded in the seabed caught the eye of one diver at first he had no idea what the item could be so the diver and his partner swam closer determined to figure it out upon closer inspection the two students managed to determine precisely what the strange object was beau doherty left and tella osler right with the simon fraser university students who noticed something strange on the sea floor while doherty saw it first the second he pointed it out ulcer agreed the square object and up along determined to remove any trash from the beautiful ocean the two swam over and tried to remove the object closer they noticed the object had hard edges and a leather strap that waved in the current as dougherty pulled the belt he felt surprised to see a round lens emerge from the sand despite the algae and literal sea life living on the object the diver recognized it as a camera as doherty discovered the rusty camera he placed it in his dive bag and continued with his research however as he continued his diving expedition the diver couldn't help but wonder who the old camera had belonged to more importantly how the camera ended up on the sea floor so deep in the water and so far away from shore also how long had it been there one of the divers picked it up and put it in his pocket and kept counting starfish professor isabel coat recalled in an interview when they came up from the dive he said look what i found as you might imagine the whole team felt curious and wanted to find out everything about the unusual find after doherty revealed what he found the old camera particularly caught the attention of coates co-professor siobhan gray what was so special about this rusty camera well while gray had accompanied the first group out that day her main interest of study was not actually the starfish instead she had tagged along to study aquatic plant life for the banfield marine sciences center when looking at the camera gray felt amazed to see fauna growing on the surface of the electronic so she decided to take the rusty camera back to her lab for further investigation back at the lab gray found far more than she ever expected gray could not believe the miniature ecosystem that she discovered living inside the old rusty camera while she had seen plenty of algae and plant life on the outside of the camera nothing could prepare her for the inside inside grave found not only several more species of algae but also a sea cucumber and two brittle stars for those not in the know brittle stars are very similar to sea stars just much much smaller nature had found a way to take over the camera and turn it into part of its ecosystem as gray and coat taught in their ecology classes however as luck would have it that wasn't all that gray had discovered now many might assume that a camera that spent years underwater would be completely useless and they're right however memory cards on the other hand are known to be able to take quite the beating and when grey popped it out of its tray it actually looked in pretty good shape even though the sd card was covered in black algae the team hoped that it would still work when placed in a computer even better they hoped that a few of the shots had survived the water damage if they had the dive team might be able to track down the original owner while it felt like a long shot they felt more than willing to try when gray discovered that the sd card remained almost intact she felt another wave of excitement flow through her my first thought about the camera was are there still images on the card she recalled even in the interview months later after finding the camera gray could still barely contain how excited she felt about solving this long forgotten mystery gray felt incredibly happy to learn that not only did the 8 gigabyte lexar platinum card still work but that plenty of videos and pictures had survived hopefully the memory card's contents would lead the team to the camera's rightful owner unfortunately the task would soon prove harder than first expected even though gray felt reluctant to scroll through somebody's personal photos she knew of no other way to get to the bottom of this mystery so she started looking at the images one by one as she scrolled through them gray realized that the pictures continued many of the same people seen above at various get-gathers dating back to july 30th 2012. despite feeling happy that she had access to the pictures gray still did not feel right going through someone's personal property even worse after going through every single photo she failed to find any clues that would help her find the owner the professor had no idea what to do next still as gray looked at the photos she knew that given her content they must mean a lot to the family seen above so even though she didn't know what she would do next the professor felt determined not to give up thankfully gray was about to unlock a clue that would solve everything running out of ideas on her own gray decided to ask her colleague elizabeth coat seen below for help unsurprisingly she was more than happy to help gray solve the mystery of the underwater camera after taking a moment to think coate realized she had the best chance of finding the camera's owner by posting the pictures on social media the very next day the pair began tweeting out certain photos using the hashtag detectives soon enough the pictures garnered hundreds of comments like and retweets however despite all the interaction and feedback no one came forward to claim the images so a couple days later cote and gray decided to change their strategy up after a few days cote and gray realized they were getting nowhere with the social media posts so they elected to try something new after all they had agreed to never back down the camera was too important to its original owner running out of options the two professors felt willing to try everything they could think of eventually cote and gray and the rest of the dive team resorted to printing out the pictures and posting them around town believe it or not it didn't take too long before a member of the local coast guard regiment actually recognized someone in the photos it would seem one of the men in the photos had been rescued from a shipwreck not too long ago as it turns out one of the men in the photos was paul burgoyne an artist from vancouver apparently burgoyne had lost his boat back in 2012 when it sank exactly where the diver had found the camera after a short talk with cote and gray the coast guard officer found burgoyne's phone number and got in touch with him after a short phone call with him the coast guard officer took the camera in hopes of returning it to the man meanwhile cote and gray felt thrilled that their hard work had finally yielded some results little did they know that the story would not end here in late may of 2014 gray received phone call that finally put the entire mystery to bed on the other end was none other than paul burgoyne and he was thrilled gray said apparently burgoyne couldn't believe that the dive team had found his long-lost camera and just as gray and her associates had predicted he told her just how much the camera meant to him he said when he got off the phone with the coast guard he and his wife were laughing a great deal and mentioned how lucky he was gray later said as the professor and burgoyne talk he told them just how important the photos on the camera were to him burgoyne felt particularly grateful as the bulk of the photos on the car did not capture any ordinary family gathering you see most of the pictures came from the day when he and his family had scattered his late mother's ashes that made the loss of his camera even harder it had been all burgoyne had to remember his mother by meanwhile the rest of the card held some of his favorite scuba diving and snorkeling photos like the one below of course the professor needed to know how burgoyne could have possibly lost such an important camera as gray would soon discover he had lost the camera under the most harrowing of circumstances the entire adventure began two years earlier on july 20th 2012 at the time burt coyne had been sailing to his summer home in tassis british columbia then as things can on the sea everything took a turn for the worse in a heartbeat everything seemed fine at first with the majority of the trip going off without a hitch i felt bliss when the ocean went calm and i was sitting at the back of the boat all by myself and thinking what could be better than this ergoing recalled of the beginning of the trip however all hell broke loose when he hit a spot of bad weather as the final day approached burgoyne thought he would sail on through without incident unfortunately on the afternoon of the last day the sailor placed his boat directly on the path of a massive storm for those who do not know things can change on the sea in a heartbeat in just minutes the seas went from calm and beautiful to raging and terrifying sailing through the storm burgoyne tried to remain calm and rely on his skills to get him through unfortunately as the sea grew more turbulent his boat crashed into some unseen rocks near the shore in the ensuing panic burgoyne dived from the boat into the water losing everything including his camera after burgoyne's boat crashed into the rocks and the hull smashed apart it quickly sank into the ocean within a matter of minutes he found himself stranded in the freezing cold water rapidly developing hypothermia burgoyne saw his entire life flash before his eyes he felt sure he would never get out of the ghastly accident alive thankfully patrons at a nearby inn spotted him and called the coast guard believe it or not burgoyne had to stay in the cold water for six hours until he was finally rescued and brought back to the shore luckily after a short hospital stay he returned to full health while in the hospital the local community truly rallied together to help burgoyne the morning after the coast guard saved burgoyne from the waters the local canadian newspaper ran a story about the rescue immediately friends family and even strangers aided burgoyne in his recovery many sent well wishes and cards while some went above and beyond sending him gifts or food in fact a local electronics store future shop even replaced all his underwater camera equipment at no charge unfortunately regardless of the camera or well wishes burgoyne could not help but still feel heartbroken he truly appreciated them but he had simply lost too much in just a matter of seconds during the crash as you can imagine paul burgoyne felt extremely grateful that he had made it out of the ocean live and even had a new camera however as a result he had lost hundreds of personal and meaningful possessions in the wreck not just his pictures at first burgoyne felt incredibly depressed and hurt at the loss still in time he learned to accept it after all it was the cost of his survival still out of all the objects he lost burgoyne felt most heartbroken about his missing camera while he could replace most of the other possessions he could not recreate the photos for years burgoyne had assumed he lost those memories for all time so you can only imagine how lucky he felt when the coast guard officer called him as you might imagine burgoyne cannot believe he eventually got the camera back after so long that just shocked me getting the camera or the photos back that's really quite wonderful he said i have a new respect for you know these electronics you throw most of it away every two years but that little card is an amazing bit of technology these days the photographs serve as a reminder for burgoyne to always be thankful for what he has at first he says he had to give the camera up to understand the importance of life now that he's learned to be thankful the universe returned the camera to burgoyne however he's not the only lucky person in the world believe it or not this is not the first time this has happened as hard as it might be to believe on the other side of the world another long-lost camera appeared in the ocean this time the camera in question washed up onto the beach in taiwan meanwhile barnacles covered the outer shell to the degree that it did look like part of the sea floor however once again the camera remained surprisingly intact the makers of the waterproof case that protected the camera should really put these images on their amazon page while a group of school children found the missing camera it would be their teacher who eventually found the owner when one of his 11 year old students found and brought the camera to him teacher park lee didn't know exactly what to do at first he thought it was merely a rock given the way it looked then when he realized it was a camera he didn't think it could ever work we thought it was broken but then by chance knocked off a particle on the casing and found a button to open the case parker lee said amazingly not a drop of water had entered and the camera inside appeared to be in good shape even more amazingly the boy turned the power on and the camera was still charged lee said before long mr lee took the kids back to the school to discuss what to do with their find back at school mr lee and his students tried to figure out what to do with camera some children thought we had earned the camera and could keep it for ourselves others suggested we should try to find the owner and so we all sat down to think about how to do that lee recalled after a while they came to an agreement you see mr lee and his students knew that they needed to take a look at the photographs if they wanted to find its owner just like gray and coat at first they had mixed feelings about looking at the images however when they realized it was the only way to find the owner everyone agreed it was the right thing to do as soon as the class began scrolling through the pictures they quickly discovered an essential piece of information you see they found most of the images were from japan so they narrowed down the country of the owner afterward mr lee posted the pictures on facebook captioning them in japanese and chinese of course like gray and cote the class had no idea if posting the images on social media would work in the end while social media had not worked for the two professors in canada it would work for the class from taiwan soon enough the pictures and the class went completely viral while mr lee and his students had high hopes to find the camera's owner through their posts they had no idea the posts would become viral but they did in just a matter of days the facebook post had over 100 000 shares and over 50 000 comments not only that but this time around the viral posts actually helped locate the camera's owner just a few days after the posts went viral lee received a message in his inbox from the owner of the camera diver serena subikara seen above as you might imagine the class of 10 and 11 year olds could not wait to talk to her and return the camera i couldn't believe it camera owner serena tsubakara told the bbc after she saw the facebook post after getting in contact with subakara mr lee and his class knew they had done the right thing furthermore as they would soon find out this camera also held great importance to their owner i was super surprised when my friends told me about this and sent me the post with those pictures subikara continued a japanese university student serbikara felt incredibly happy to learn that someone had found the camera that contained pictures from her favorite diving vacation soon enough she found herself talking to the class and telling them how she lost the camera as she relate to the class serena tsubakara had been on vacation on the island of ishigaki okinawa some 155 miles east of taiwan when she lost her camera i was scuba diving and i lost the camera when one of my friends ran out of air and needed help just like the camera in britain this diver had lost her camera due to a life and death situation when subikara dropped the camera from her hands in 2015 she felt sure that she had lost it forever meanwhile safely encased in a diving case the camera went on a little journey of its own well protected it traveled hundreds of miles until it eventually washed up on a beach in taiwan while tsubikara lost the camera all those years ago she could have never imagined it would end up on a beach in taiwan let alone that a child would find it and ultimately return her lost memories i am so lucky and happy to have this miracle opportunity to feel kindness of people in my life subakara said those pictures reminded me of old memories and brought me back to those these days chubakara regularly looks at the photographs and remembers not only the great vacation but also the fantastic class that returned them feeling incredibly grateful to mr lee and his students tsubakara wanted to do something special to thank them while tubikara could have simply asked mr lee to send the photos by email she wanted to go back to taiwan and show them her appreciation after all it's not every day that someone goes far out of their way to return a lost item to her that's more valuable than the camera they found plus they also returned all those incredible memories she thought she'd never see again so tsubakara went to taiwan and got the chance to meet all the students who helped her as you can see in the photos above afterward it seemed like the story of tsubakara and the school children was over however the grateful young woman had one last surprise in store for the children when subakara went to taiwan she had to do so on a tight budget as a student in fact she had to wait a few months before heading over even after contacting the class in order to save up for a plane ticket so when subakara arrived she felt a little sorry that she had not brought any thank you gifts for the children on her flight back home with her long-lost camera tucked safely away in her bag tsubakara tried to think of ways she could thank and surprise the class that had found her camera then tsubakara remembered that the class was due to graduate third grade in six months or so that gave the young woman quite the idea in the end tsubakara decided to surprise the class once again during their third grade graduation she arrived without any forward notice this time towing along all sorts of awesome gifts including toys and candies as well as handmade thank you cards according to the local taiwanese newspaper the children were over the moon to see their old friend apparently tsubakara had made quite an impression on the class these days tubacara continues to dive and would like to return when the class graduates from middle school meanwhile she's never discovered anything more than cool fish on her dives no long-lost cameras of course some divers have found much more than a camera underwater long before siobhan gray mr lee you or i lived pharaohs ruled much of present-day egypt and sudan with an iron fist at the end of their lives many pharaohs were entombed inside massive pyramids now considered some of the greatest archaeological achievements of all time while you might think that today we know all there is to know about ancient civilizations think again in the present day over 2300 years of the pharaohs reigned diver and underwater archaeologist pierce kriesman decided to explore a newly discovered pyramid one partially submerged in water however they had no idea that the risk and dangerous expedition could lead to one of the most significant historical