Lost camera saga

This is pretty cool

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1209894

Cool story! Yes thanks for posting as i never go to the RCL board.

Thanks for posting, with all the negative stuff on here it was fun to read the story and yes I never go to the other threads either so I wouldn't have seen it. What a great story!!

I can see why he posted it. It's a really cool story. Not everyone gets to every board on CC. I spend 99% of my time on the Carnival boards so I would have missed it.

Thank you for posting this. Like others said, I do not go to the RCL boards so I really appreciated it especially as a photographer myself. That turtle video was awesome.

It did to me as I had not seen the original, thanks OP...

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Wow, that is so cool!

Very nice. Thank you for posting the link.

Great post! It reaffirms my faith in humanity that someone would go to such lengths to return that camera!!!

I am glad you posted it, otherwise I would have missed it too

Great story.

I always make the first picture a shot of my email address, in case my camera or card is lost.

OP here, and I am so glad that (most) ya'll are enjoying it. I didn't just jump on this thread to post it here. I read through every link provided and found it to be a real detective story before posting here (and I did look to make sure I wasn't repeating information). As interesting as the cameras journey was - the journey back home is just as interesting. Not to mention, who knew turtles know how to work a camera?

Thanks for posting....great story!

NewCat -- what a GREAT story. Thank you for directing us to it! :D:DSilver

Thanks OP, I am one of those that do not go over to other boards so I would have missed it also. That is a great story and you will be blessed many times over for what you did.:D

the video of the turtle is amazing.

Some folks never make it over to the Royal board.

OP thanks for sharing the link

 

Amazing story..Aruba to Key West is about 1200 miles, so that camera traveled about 200 miles a month from Mid Nov to Mid May.

Carrying you argument to it's logical conclusion, the OP should post the message on all the rest of the boards on Cruise Critic to make sure that nobody misses the original post.

DON

Carrying you argument to it's logical conclusion, the OP should post the message on all the rest of the boards on Cruise Critic to make sure that nobody misses the original post.

 

DON

Sounds like a good idea to me..lol

With all the negative threads on the board, its refreshing to see something positive and truly amazing.

Not sure why it bothers you to this degree, but you are entitled to that opinion.

Why are you posting a link to a currently active thread? Does your post add anything useful at all to Cruise Critic?

 

I think not as anyone who sees your post will probably also see the original post.

 

DON

Not true. I haven't. So there is value

I was led over here to you fine Carnival folks from a post on my thread. Thanks, JerseyshoreBruce! Likewise, I rarely read other threads, such as Carnival, so I wouldn't have known this conversation was taking place over here.

Newcatintown - I appreciate you sharing my story. I took this on as a personal challenge because there was almost no identiying information in the pictures. I've been working on this for 2 weeks and finally identified an owner in Aruba yesterday. I am still dumbfounded this camera floated all the way to Key West from Aruba over a period of 6 months.

For those who have not seen it, two months after the camera floated away from the owner, a sea turtle came across it. The camera was in video mode already, so when the turtle bit in to it and turned it on, this is what happened:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43sg-Ytt58

OP....Thank you for posting this!!! I would have NEVER have seen it otherwise! :)

Great story.

 

I always make the first picture a shot of my email address, in case my camera or card is lost.

great idea. I'll have to read the story from home. cant get the 'boards' at work

OP, thanks for sharing. I am never on the other boards, so I would have never seen this. This is an amazing story!!

This is pretty cool

 

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1209894

i agree, don't worry about the negative someone may write. may not be interesting to them (so why did they bother to post) but it is interesting to others. i looked at the video and saw that they did locate the owner! how awesome!!

and amazing how it intrigued them enough to want to find the owner and the painstakingly research they did. i am a curious person as well. thanks for posting OP!!

Amazing story. My wife just bought me an Ikelite case for my video camera. This should make her feel better about what she spent on the case, which was more than the camera.

That is sooo cool.

Since I don't read the RCCL boards...I would have never seen it.

LOVED the turtle video!!!!!!!!