When alostcamera washed up on a beach in Taiwan , it was cover with so many barnacles that it looked like a rock music .
Miraculously , it was still integral , dry inwardly , and in working condition thanks to a waterproof shell that emphatically merit a five - ace review on Amazon . A chemical group of schoolchildren and their teacher discovered the photographic camera while on an outing to clean up the beach , theBBC reports . The teacher , Park Lee , and his scholar decided to get the pic developed and upload the pictures to Facebook in hopes of bump who the camera had belonged to . The post move viral and the possessor was identified in just a day .
The owner of the camera was Serina Tsubakihara , a Nipponese university student who had lost it in September 2015 while vacationing on the island of Ishigaki , Okinawa , Japan—155 nautical mile from where it was found . She was scuba dive and snapping subaquatic pics when she knock off the photographic camera into the astuteness to come to the aid of a friend who had run out of atmosphere . Over the next three yr , the camera give way on a long underwater journeying that took it all the way to Taiwan .
Leetoldthe BBC that the class was unsure whether it was a misdemeanor of privacy to look at the photos and put up them on Facebook , but it seemed like the only way to chance the owner . After seeing that some of the pictures were from Japan , they guessed that the owner might be Japanese and posted their online content in Nipponese and Chinese . Ultimately , the billet make over 10,000 shares .
" I am so lucky and well-chosen to have this miracle opportunity to feel kindness of people in my life , " Tsubakihara told the BBC . " Those picture remind me of former memory and brought me back to those . " She plans to go to Taiwan in June to pick up her camera and thank its saviors .
[ h / tBBC News ]
