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. 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 1,100 mile journey. The camera washed up six months later in Key West, Fla., where it was spotted by Paul Shultz, an investigator with the U.S. Coast Guard.
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.
Residents of the sundrenched Caribbean island circulated the report until De Bruin, a Dutch photographer who had been taking snaps of a shipwreck, spotted it and contacted 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 Shultz replied. Aruba is one of the Lesser Antilles in the southern Caribbean Sea, located around 15 miles off the coast of Venezuela.
6 comments:
damn, that turtle is a bad cameraman! :p
what happened to message in a bottle? does it have to be camera on a turtle these days? pffff ;)
Just shows the effect human junk can have on wildlife. Now just think of the number of not so fortunate beasts that've been caught up on the plastic loops of a six-pack of beer.
Is that guy such a bad photographer that he recognises the work of the turtle as his own...?
:-P
I saw an "artsy" film at a festival that was similar to this but 2 hours long.
...and (ostensibly, at least) filmed by a human.
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