One subject found his iPhone 10 months after throwing it to the bottom of the river in great Britain.

According to BBCOwain Davies throws iPhone to the River Wye near Cinderford, Gloucestershire, while canoeing at a stag party. Now, in the same situation, they had found it again.

iPhone “whole”

According to the chronicle, Miguel Pacheco of Drybook, Gloucestershire, discovered the device while canoeing on a river. He took it home, dried it and posted pictures online in an attempt to track down its owner.

Pacheco said he thought the attempt would be “not good” because iPhone it’s “full of water”. However, it is still dry because I know it may contain images of sentimental data.

The man dried the device with an air compressor before placing it in a ventilation cabinet to dry. When he put it on the charger the next morning, the background showed a picture of a man and a woman, as well as August 13, the date the device fell into the water.

Pacheco posted a picture on Facebook which was shared more than 4,000 times. Eventually, Davies’ friends and fiancé Fiona Gardner recognized the tape and contacted him. Finally returned working perfectly.

so he lost it

Davies also explained to the outlet how the device fell into the river.

“I was in a two-person canoe and my partner probably shouldn’t have stood up, and of course we fell,” he said. “The phone was in my back pocket and as soon as I was in the water I realized it was missing.”

He also praised Pacheco for going to great lengths to save the device. “My natural reaction was to hand it over to the nearest pub. Not use my air compressor to dry and disassemble it,” he says.

Model of iPhone newer ones are certified with IP68 water and dust resistance, meaning they can withstand up to 1.5 meters of fresh water for up to 30 minutes.

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