Posted on 11/22/2022 6:37:40 AM PST by dennisw
A UK paddleboarder redefined “life ring” after dropping her iPhone in the ocean, only for it to wash ashore in perfect working condition — an incredible 460 days later.
”I never thought I would have seen it again, or for it to be working,” Clare Atfield, 39, told SWNS. The miraculous saga occurred while she was paddleboarding — her standard morning routine — on August 4, 2021, off the coast of her hometown in Havant, Hampshire.
Disaster struck after the Brit fell off her board, whereupon her device disappeared into the water.
“I had been paddle boarding quite far out to sea but I fell off my board,” described Atfield, who always wore the device around her neck while paddling. “I got back on and kept going — but then realized I had lost my phone.”
The water woman added, “It was quite far out to sea, but it was inside one of those phone protection cases which came with my paddleboard, so it must have sank and just stayed there.”
At that point, Atfield became convinced that her device was gone for good. The Brit subsequently forgot about the phone until over a year later on November 7, when she was contacted by a local dog walker who claimed to have found it on the beach — not too far from where she’d originally lost the device.
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They saved this detail for the end of the article.
Because the first principal of writing a clickbait article and headline is to make something sensational and astonishing, then at the very end admit that there was a mundane reason for the story in the first place.
It was in a waterproof flotation case.
You should readily know the difference with all the people you Russians have kidnapped in Ukraine and enslaved.
Uyghurs are not used in the Foxconn factory.
“Uyghurs are not used in the Foxconn factory.”
Coming from a propaganda peddler who believes anything he reads in a headline title........
No brainer there.
I had no idea that Lake Tahoe was that deep.
“Updated Executive Summary -— She took her iPhone (encased inside a waterproof bag- a “dry bag”) out on the ocean and lost it...and it stayed dry...for 500 days under water.”
Will a dry bag keep the ocean water out for 500 days? My guess is that by the time the salt water got into this iPhone, the battery had died. So the salt water did not short circuit the electronic innards. Just my guess.
Apple should make an advertisement from this and offer her a new laptop or whatever she likes/ I would go for latest and most loaded laptop possible. 1Tb hard drive, M2 chip and so on. Minimum 16GB ram.
The fruit in the Bible is not identified as an apple. Steve Jobs claimed they added the bite so the logo wouldn’t be misidentified as a cherry. I suspect they also did it so it wouldn’t look like a silhouette version of the Beatles apple record label.
Make that a 1 or2 GB NVME drive for my loaded Apple laptop. And the largest screen size they have. I figure (wild guess, actually) This will come in at $3800 for Christmas
How does Starbucks use slave labor?
Honestly asking.
[[Just wondering why the headline states 500 days & the article states 460 days ??]]
Because maff is racist, and so no one knows how to count these days
Sorry - there is ample documentation perhaps you should stick to the FSB/KGB plan and spread hate, disinformation, distortion, lies, and so forth on Ukraine threads as you have been doing all year.
“Why would anyone take their cell phone while surfing? Addiction.”
The babes cling to their phone support system. A few days ago I walked past a cute 25 year old walking her dog. As she restrained her dog she dropped her phone on the asphalt. I hope it survived. I did not notice a phone case.
It’s well known that not responding instantly to a text message can be fatal. Better to be safe than sorry.
I still don’t want one.
1600’ is the deepest...known depth.
Average depth is about 1000’, with around 123mm acre feet of water content.
This would cover the entire state of CA in 14” of water.
Thanks for the information!
water at depth would block/filter the UV degridation upon the plastic, so yes, it would protect the phone- eidenced that it did protect the phone.
the real story is the bag, not the phone.
where did you get that it was in a “flotation case”?
Do Waterproof Phone Cases Float? Yes, they do! This floating phone case works by reducing the overall weight of your phone. But there are some important details to consider before you choose one. First, if you are going to float your phone in water, it must be buoyant, otherwise it will sink. The buoyant force is determined by the density of the object. In other words, if you are heavier than water, you will sink. Therefore, you must choose a case that will float, as this will increase the amount of time the phone remains afloat.
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