Camera lost in Hawaii washed up 6,000 miles away in Taiwan with photos still intact

The owner of a camera which was lost in Hawaii nearly six years ago has been traced after it was found last month on a beach in Taiwan. Lindsay Scallan of Newnan, Georgia never imagined that she would see the precious photos from her past again. She snapped them during her Maui vacation in 2007, but lost her new camera during a night scuba dive in Kaanapali.



"The seas were really rough. There was a lot of sand stirred up. It was hard to see," said Scallan. Scallan returned to the beach the next morning, hoping the camera had washed up on shore. "But of course, we didn't find it, so at that point I just gave up. I was pretty disappointed because I had all my vacation pictures on there. Plus, the cost of the camera," Scallan said.



The Canon PowerShot was in a waterproof case and it drifted thousands of miles to Taiwan. A China Airlines employee discovered the camera on a beach last month. The airline asked Hawaii News Now to help find the owner seen in many of the pictures. Once the story hit the airwaves and the internet, Scallan's friend sent her a link.


YouTube link.

"I just was floored that it was my camera and it was all my old pictures and it was amazing. I just couldn't believe it had floated so far, so long ago and the memory card was still intact," said Scallan. China Airlines has offered to fly Scallan to Taiwan to be reunited with her camera.

There's a large photo gallery here.