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[Surface Interval]

lol, will someone please go edit the post with the video of the turtle on youtube? It needs to have a spoiler alert!!

I scrolled down out of habit to look at the comments and posts had been made that the owner had been found.

I still continued to read through all of the posts (no, I didn't cheat)...but maaaan!

I'm the kind of person who DOESN'T skip to the last page in a book.

What a great adventure.

 

[DandyDon]

lol, will someone please go edit the post with the video of the turtle on youtube? It needs to have a spoiler alert!!

I scrolled down out of habit to look at the comments and posts had been made that the owner had been found.

I still continued to read through all of the posts (no, I didn't cheat)...but maaaan!

I'm the kind of person who DOESN'T skip to the last page in a book.

What a great adventure.

It would have spoiled the read to know the ending...

 

[DandyDon]

Glad to see it made news, even tho the article left out that most of the tracing was done here. Lost camera hitches 1770km ride to Florida on the back of a sea turtle | News.com.au

A PHOTOGRAPHER was reunited with a camera he had lost in the Caribbean after a sea turtle swam all the way to Florida with it.

De Telegraaf said the camera's strap caught on the reptile's shell after Dutchman Dick de Bruin dropped it in the sea during a trip to Aruba last November.

In its efforts to free itself, the turtle accidentally switched the waterproof device on and filmed part of its 1770km journey.

The camera washed up six months later in Key West, Florida, where it was spotted by Paul Shultz, an investigator with the US Coast Guard.

Mr Shultz charged up the battery and found a series of photos capturing various Aruban landmarks.

He posted the footage on YouTube along with a brief note about its contents in a bid to trace its owner, De Telegraaf said.

Residents of the sundrenched Caribbean island circulated the report until Mr De Bruin, a Dutch photographer who had been taking snaps of a shipwreck, spotted it and contacted Mr Shultz.

"I'm still amazed it floated all the way to Key West. I will be shipping it Fed-Ex to you tomorrow'" an excited Mr Shultz replied.

Experts say the camera may have floated part of the way before become entangled in the turtle.

Aruba is one of the Lesser Antilles in the southern Caribbean Sea, located around 24km off the coast of Venezuela.

The 38km-long island forms part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

 

[Aquahound]

That's the Australian version. That one is full of inaccuracies. I've seen the Dutch version, but couldn't read a word of it. It looked good though. I've also been told it aired in Japan, Brazil, and Hungary, and Russia.

I did a live BBC radio interview today.

Funny thing...it has yet to appear in U.S. papers, or even my local paper for that matter. A.P. told me it should go out on Monday. It's been a hectic media week.

But hey, that youtube video is up to 130,000 hits!

 

[DandyDon]

Got any links to others?

 

[scuba kbell]

Wow this is an amazing story! Nice detective work everyone!

 

[Aquahound]

Got any links to others?

No, I don't...at least, not yet. I was interviewed by my local paper yesterday. Their website is KeysNews.com. I met him face to face, so hopefully he gets the details right and gives the credit to these boards that I provided him. We'll see.

 

[burna]

Glad to see it made news, even tho the article left out that most of the tracing was done here. Lost camera hitches 1770km ride to Florida on the back of a sea turtle | News.com.au

That's the Australian version. That one is full of inaccuracies.

It's a really low quality 'news' site that one. I left a comment on there with a link to here but it doesn't look like they have published it.

 

[DandyDon]

Found one from Orlando Florida. Still no mention of Scubaboard. The youtube video is lots of hits. Eh it was fun even without credit.

 

[Jax]

No, I don't...at least, not yet. I was interviewed by my local paper yesterday. Their website is KeysNews.com. I met him face to face, so hopefully he gets the details right and gives the credit to these boards that I provided him. We'll see.

I hope they point to ScubaBoard - it could use some publicity in its fight against the suit.