iPhone 11 Works Perfectly After Being Submerged In Lake Water For 6 Months, Returned To Owner

Clayton Helkenberg found the phone at the bottom of a lake in Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia. He not only recovered the device but also returned it to its rightful owner. The owner of the iPhone was shocked that her phone was still working as it had been down there for about six months.

Clayton Helkenberg discovered the phone at the bottom of a lake in Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia, and was able to reconnect with the phone's owner.

He discovered it alongside some sunglasses, glass bottles, and lighters, as well as other trash. He also discovered a flip phone that had been lost for years.

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He turned the phone on after cleaning it up and was surprised to find it working perfectly. When the owner dropped it off on a boat trip, it had been down there for six months.

Helkenberg said: "The find of the day was the iPhone 11 which after getting home worked! I was able to get the phone number from the phone and tracked down the owner. We were able to meet up and reunite the owner with the phone."

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He added: "I took it home, cleaned the dirt off of it, and it just turned right on, so it was pretty amazing."

Fatemeh Ghodsi, a Vancouver resident, owned the iPhone 11.

After staff at the park told her she wouldn't be able to find her phone, she was forced to leave it behind.

She told CBC: "I was in a situation where I kind of lost balance and dropped it in the water."

She initially mistook her friends when Clayton and his wife Heather contacted her, but after they convinced her, she decided to drive the hour to Chilliwack to pick it up.

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She added: "I was in complete shock, initially to start with. It was kind of like a zombie phone coming back to me because I'd made peace with it being gone."

The iPhone 11 is supposed to be water-resistant for about half an hour up to 1.5 meters (five feet), but it appears to be better than even Apple had expected in this case.

Meanwhile, a skydiver who dropped his phone out of his pants while jumping out of a plane was surprised to find it still working when he found it on the ground.

Kody Madro, 31, was astonished to discover that it still worked after being dropped from 10,000 feet in the air, though it did finally stop working two weeks later.