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BBC News - South African owners of camera found in the sea traced

A couple who lost their camera when it fell overboard from a cruise ship have been traced after a trawlerman hauled the device from the Atlantic seabed.
Benito Estevez, of Spain, found the camera in his nets with five of the photos still intact on the memory card.
Barbara and Dennis Gregory, from South Africa, were en-route from New York to Southampton on the QM2 in 2008 when they lost their camera in the ocean.
Mrs Gregory said she had never expected to see the camera or the photos again.
"It's literally a dream come true, she told the BBC.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Feb 11th, 2010 at 12:58:32 PM EST

I can haz camera? (4.00 / 3)

She said: "Dennis had had the camera strung around his neck because he didn't want to drop the second one.
"Everything was fine until he sat down on a lounger on deck and took it off his neck. Somebody spotted the ships' cats on the upper deck and the two of us jumped up and that was it.
"It literally bounced off his lap, across the deck and into the water with hardly a splash and it was gone.
"We were devastated. We'd lost every photograph we had and some of them were destined to be lolcats classics."

by Magnifico on Thu Feb 11th, 2010 at 01:21:38 PM EST
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