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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If that factoid hadn’t been omitted at the start there would be no story... and no clicks.
I always felt it odd that Boris Yeltsin's political party after he resigned from the Communist Party was named Yabloko (Я́блоко) which means Apple.
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