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[The Chairman]

That's OK... this was really about Paul and his resourcefulness! Kudos to Paul (and my offer still stands).

 

[kittster1]

Wow Auq, you may have gained the quickest acceptance of a forum poster I've ever seen...2 months and you get on TV and scubaboard mentioned nationally...
So the turtle let the camera go and didn't swim it to the keys?? lol

Did the news pick your story up by surfing the daily videos.. I work in the media and they have crawlers on the internet looking for new stuff hourly.

I joined just because of this story... and because I am going to get certified as I've been metal detecting for 40 years... beach and water...

It was a great story and great job on your part...

Um... you didn't happen to find a dive bag with 7 doubloons in it on the keys lately??? naaa

 

[DizzyDallasDi]

AquaHound - Applauding for your national TV spot...very nice!

 

[Reinminer]

Maybe you could start a "movie" thread.

Some more back-story for the film: Since the loop current goes through the Gulf of Mexico, now would be a great time to incorporate the conservation aspect of this story, at the time when the BP oil incident is causing so much suffering for turtles and other animals in the Gulf.

I know it takes 3+years to complete a Pixar film, but what a great story. Nemo was about conservation, Wall-E was about conservation, we know Disney/Pixar has a heart. Keep putting their name in posts, someone will Google it who knows someone who knows someone.......

Aquahound can make it happen!

This is the exact reason why Walt Disney bought so much land in Florida~most of it was for conservation. *cough, cough, AnimalKindom cough, cough* Also, you didn't mention Disney's recent documentaries...

 

[sansky]

Sorry about that...had the wrong site. The correction has been made now. Thanks!

By the way, just for general information, etc... I shot photos (film, for journalism) for a number of years, and I always made a habit of making the first frame on each roll of film a shot of an info card (name, address, pho. number...we didn't have email 'way back then') that I carried with my photo kit. That way, anyone finding the camera or even just a lost roll of film would know how to contact me to return it. I still do the same thing with my digital cameras today (except now the ONLY thing listed is my email address. My how some things change and others don't!).

That's a great idea about taking photo of something with email address!

When I go diving on a liveaboard - like Aggressor - I take photos of the dive site drawings so I can post them later to my dive log. It is an easy way to keep up with sites you went to without spending your free time writing in your log.

 

[Surface Interval]

I was thinking of buying my son a camera for a trip we are about to take and I was thinking of this thread and the post a million posts ago that said "take a picture of your name and address, etc..." first....

 

[parzdiver]

You can probably put a text file on the SD card from your computer. I haven't tested it, but the camera shouldn't remove anything at the root of the card. I'll have to give it a shot. Then again, people might be more likely to see the picture.

 

[Reef Tank]

You can probably put a text file on the SD card from your computer. I haven't tested it, but the camera shouldn't remove anything at the root of the card. I'll have to give it a shot. Then again, people might be more likely to see the picture.

And, don't forget, many cameras have a small amount of memory that is available only when the card is removed where one could take a photo of an email address. Of course, this wouldn't have helped AH when the camera didn't boot.

 

[Aquahound]

Hello everyone. Sorry to resurrect this thread. I just want to let everyone know Dick de Bruin is defying T.S. Bonnie and driving down through the Keys today to meet up with me. Weather permitting, I plan to show him where the camera was found, give him a tour of the CG base, and sit down and drink some beer with him. I'll get a couple pics up later today, or tomorrow.

 

[The Chairman]

Don't apologize... have fun!!! Thanks for reminding us.