Posted on 06/15/2010 3:17:06 PM PDT by Nachum
The 1,100-mile journey of a diver's camera lost in the Caribbean has been revealed with the extraordinary help of a sea turtle who switched it on and filmed some of the epic adventure.
Royal Dutch Navy sergeant Dick de Bruin was exploring a wreck off the tropical island of Aruba last year when his bright red camera silently floated away.
Yet following a six-month odyssey the camera has found its way back to Mr Dr Bruin, with some unique ocean footage recorded by the turtle.
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Turtle cam! Will have to check the video when it’s working again.
That’s a fairly accurate representation of what I see walking home from the bar most evenings, without the sidewalk.
If the Turtle could crop photos and use photshop, Reuters might hire it.
Next year’s Big winner at Cannes.
Next year’s Big winner at Cannes.
Muslims to protest, turtle not halal!
If this was a post turtle we could submit it for a Nobel prize.
Most of it seems to be the surface of the water from underneath.
It looks like a regular still camera. I wonder how the turtle figured out how to use the video mode?
I love sea turtles. The turtleheads glued a cam to one a few years ago and the video they got was him humping her out in the middle of the gulf.
That’s what I call reality TV!
that was a complete waste of time...LOL
Now I don’t think we should protect turtles anymore...they obviously don’t have a clue to what they are doing!!!
He knew how to keep a camera from floating away, which is more than the camera’s owner knew. Just think, if his trip had been less uneventful, the camera might be inside a shark right now.
Inside a shark would have been more fun to watch...LOL
But watch there will now be new regulation to force change of camera straps because it endangers turtles and forces invasion of their privacy...
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