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TikTok helps find owners of GoPro camera that spent 4 years underwater
UPI ^ | April 8 , 2021 | Ben Hooper

Posted on 04/09/2021 12:41:52 PM PDT by Red Badger

A video posted to TikTok helped a California woman reunite a couple with a GoPro camera that spent nearly four years underwater after being lost at a waterfall.

Rio Villa said she and her boyfriend were visiting Three Sisters Falls on April 3 when they found a GoPro camera wedged between the water and some rocks under a waterfall.

Villa posted a video to TikTok showing footage from the camera depicting a couple exploring San Diego.

"Oh yeah, even GoPro commented, they were like 'hey San Diegans like help them find the owners,'" Villa told KFMB-TV.

The couple from the video said family members sent them a link to the TikTok the next day.

"I saw the video and was like 'What! This is crazy how can that be? It's us.' And I was like 'Did you post this? How is this?'" said the GoPro's owner, Priscila Bernal.

Bernal and her then-boyfriend -- now husband -- Alejandro Lopez lost the camera while going down a slide.

"The second time I hit my elbow. I opened my hand and throw the camera into the water. We tried to find it for hours and hours. It was a failure," Lopez said.

Villa and her boyfriend, Wil Ezell, are now making plans to meet up with Bernal and Lopez in San Diego to return the camera to its owners.

"All they had was these memories in their mind and now we can bring that back to them, which was really cool," Ezell said.

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1 posted on 04/09/2021 12:41:52 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Did they also give them a San Diego thank you?


2 posted on 04/09/2021 12:43:40 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

What is that?....................


3 posted on 04/09/2021 12:44:18 PM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: Red Badger

4 years? Wow; I’m lucky if I can do 30 seconds.


4 posted on 04/09/2021 12:45:50 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Red Badger

San Diego Thank You - getting a kiss while on the toilet


5 posted on 04/09/2021 12:46:35 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Red Badger

They’ll probably give her some kind of reward for going out of her way to be helpful. Maybe a few coupons for a Double-Double hamburger at In & Out.


6 posted on 04/09/2021 12:52:49 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

A GoPro is expensive, depending on the model. They should at least give them a reward.................


7 posted on 04/09/2021 12:59:29 PM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: Red Badger

Wait until the see the footage of the Loch Ness Monster’s cousin swimming around in the deep.


8 posted on 04/09/2021 1:33:11 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Red Badger

I have a Go Pro 5 that I haven’t used but a few times. At times I think of selling it and the few accessories.

These days I almost never turn on my GH4. The first photos I took in months was of my newly delivered powder coated jeep body tub and the homemade caddy I made to roll it around.

The iPhone camera does 90 percent of what few photo needs I have.


9 posted on 04/09/2021 2:12:05 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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