This Nikon Coolpix L18 floated all over from Aruba to Florida, USA.
A US Coast Guard investigator named Paul Shultz recently fished out a Nikon Coolpix L18 digital compact camera, housed in an underwater case, which has turned out to have floated to Florida from the island of Aruba. According to a report by Associated Press, it took the camera half a year to make the 1,100-mile journey on the back of the waves, helped by “various currents”. Owing to the underwater housing – whose make/model has not been disclosed – the camera remained functional, and it was possible to retrieve the pictures – and a video “recorded by” a sea turtle that accidentally turned on the floating camera while it was en route to Florida – stored on its memory card. Using clues found in the photos, Shultz was able to identify the owner of the camera as Dick de Bruin, a sergeant in the Royal Dutch Navy. “The camera is on its way to the de Bruin family via FedEx and should be there any day,” AP says.
I’m not too fond about rumors of any kind, I just let Nikon do their thing and surprise me with whatever they have developed for us in terms of new cameras and/or optics. Last night I was watching the fight of Miguel Cotto vs Yuri Foreman. It was a great fight, our home boy Cotto won and my hat off to Yuri, he was truly a gladiator up there. Before the fight started a saw a row of photographers on the ring side sporting Nikon and Canon pro bodies. This camera got my attention and thanks to the magic of DVR and the fact that I had my CoolPix P60, I was able to snap these 2 pictures of what appears to be a new Nikon. I say a ”NEW” Nikon because on the ring side all photographers show their brands without any inhibitions. This camera shows what it looks like a leather covering; like those used when new cars not yet in the market and are tested in closed circuits to keep the main features off the spy paparazzi lenses.
