According to recent reports, a diving enthusiast, Clayton Helkenberg, and his wife, Heather recently discovered an iPhone 11 at the bottom of Lake Harrison in Canada. After recovering and cleaning the phone, it still works normally. They successfully called the phone and finally found the owner.
Fatemeh Ghodsi, owner of the smartphone, lives in Vancouver, Canada. According to her, she was at the park last September to have fun. Of course, while she was there, she took a lot of pictures that were still on the phone. She said this while riding a round bumper boat, your cell phone fell into the water, unfortunately.
In an interview with the media, she said: “I lost my balance on the spot, so the phone fell into the water. Although she sought help from a team after she landed on land, they convinced her that it is impossible to find the phone in deep water. “
After the phone was lost, she bought a new iPhone and restored some of the previous photos, contacts and other information.
Many other items rescued from the lake
Helkenberg, a diving enthusiast, has many years of experience. Since 2020, he has been diving in the lake very often. Your objective is to clean the garbage and debris from the bottom of the lake. He and his wife have a YouTube account that records all of their activities. His official YouTube account is Aquatic Monkey, which shows the recovery of the iPhone 11.
According to the diver, in 2020, he saved more than 100 pairs of sunglasses, 26 smartphones and two GoPro cameras. This year, he recovered 35 pairs of glasses, 5 smartphones and 1 GoPro camera.
After retrieving the white iPhone 11, he placed the phone in a silica-filled desiccant to dry and clean the dirt. After that, the phone turns on successfully, but the speaker is no longer working. However, the phone’s battery is still at 96%. He pulled the SIM card out of the cell phone and used another cell phone to read the contacts on the SIM card, and found the owner successfully.
The iPhone 11 comes with waterproof IP68 certification. This means that it can resist water, but not for more than 30 minutes at a depth of 2 m. Therefore, its waterproof rating will absolutely not protect your phone if it falls into a lake.
Lake Harrison, the largest lake in the mountains on the southern coast of Canada, is about 279 m deep in its deepest parts. However, some areas are very shallow, only a few meters deep. Looking at this video, the diver is just saving items within a few feet of depth. However, for the white iPhone 11, it went deeper, certainly over 2m. Considering that professional divers can safely dive to depths of about 30 m (about 100 feet), this phone must have been well above 2 m deep for six months.
However, don’t try to do this with your iPhone 11. Apple is not responsible for anything that happens to the device.