According to recent reports, a diving enthusiast, Clayton Helkenberg, and his wife, Heather, recently discovered an iPhone 11 at the bottom of Harrison Lake in Canada. After storing and cleaning the phone, it still works normally. They successfully turned on the phone and eventually found the owner.
Fatemeh Ghodsi, the owner of the smartphone, lives in Vancouver, Canada. According to her, she was in the park last September to have fun. While she was there, of course, she took a lot of photos that were still on the phone. She said this while driving a round bumper boat, her cell phone unfortunately fell into the water.
In an interview with the media, she said: ‘I lost my balance at the time, so the phone fell into the water. Although she sought help from the staff after she landed, they convinced her that it was impossible to find the phone in deep water. ”
After the phone got lost, she bought a new iPhone and recovered some of the previous photos, contacts and other information.
Many other items are rescued from the lake
Helkenberg, a diving enthusiast, has many years of experience. Since 2020, he has been diving into the lake very frequently. Its purpose is to clean up the rubbish and rubbish at the bottom of the lake. He and his wife have a YouTube account that records all his activities. His official YouTube account is Aquatic Monkey, which shows the recovery of the iPhone 11.
According to the diver, in 2020, did he save more than 100 sunglasses, 26 smartphones and two GoPro cameras. This year, he saved 35 glasses, 5 smartphones and 1 GoPro camera.
After storing the white iPhone 11, he put the phone in a desiccant filled with silica to dry it and clean the dirt. After that, the phone turns on successfully, but the loudspeaker no longer works. However, the phone’s battery is still at 96%. He pulls the SIM card out of the phone and uses another phone to read the contacts in the SIM card and finds the owner successfully.
The iPhone 11 has IP68 waterproof certification. This means that it can withstand water, but not longer than 30 minutes at a depth of 2 meters. Its waterproof rating will therefore absolutely not protect the phone if it falls into a lake.
Lake Harrison, the largest lake in the southern coastal mountains of Canada, is about 279 m deep in its deepest parts. However, some areas are very shallow, but only a few meters deep. If you watch this video, the diver only rescues items within a few feet deep. For the white iPhone 11, however, he went deeper, probably above 2m. Since professional divers can dive safely to about 30 m deep, this phone should be above 2 m deep for six months.
However, do not try it with your iPhone 11. Apple is not responsible for anything that happens to the device.