Lost Camera from 2012 Shipwreck Returned with Photos Intact

                           
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A photo camera, which was considered to be disappeared in the Pacific Ocean during a shipwreck back in 2012, was found by chance this month by a pair of university students on a research dive off the coast of Vancouver Island.

The device next got in hands of its owners thanks to a still-functional memory card and an old-fashioned community bulletin board.

Paul Burgoyne believed that he’d lost a full series of precious photos forever after he was rescued from a shipwreck off Vancouver Island two years ago.

Siobhan Gray, a dive and security officer with the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, was with the students Tella Osler and Beau Doherty, when the device was found during diving, which by this time looked like a prop from a pirate movie.

The young men were on the last dive of a university credit scientific diving program when they found the device on the sea floor near Bamfield.

The camera was occupied by sea organisms, carried a slow-growing algae, a couple of brittle stars and a sea cucumber, and its memory stick was coated in some sort of black growth, said one of the students.