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.
