Kosar_For_President Posted June 17, 2010 Report Share Posted June 17, 2010 I've been following this story for about a week and found the video. The sea turtle turned on a video camera at sea. Truly amazing. MIAMI (AFP) – Move over James Cameron. A sea turtle found a waterproof camera in the Caribbean, somehow activated the device, filmed itself and is now a YouTube sensation. Back in May US Coast Guard agent Paul Schultz found a digital camera in a waterproof case on a beach in Key West, Florida, and posted images he found on its memory chip on the Internet in an attempt to find its owner. In a video clip dated January 2010 "a turtle came across the camera, and it's really hard to tell how, but it turns the camera on and recorded itself swimming with the camera," Schultz told AFP. "When I saw the video, I thought first that someone was getting attacked by a sea creature," Schultz said. "I thought that a diver was getting attacked," he said. However, he later realized that the camera was just hitching a ride with a sea turtle. "The last thing the camera owner did was shoot a video underwater, and then it goes right into the next video with the camera turning around in the water," Schultz said. The video can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43sg-Ytt58. Schultz eventually found the owner, a Dutch navy sailor who lost the camera when he was diving off the island of Aruba in November. As the crow flies, Aruba, off the Caribbean coast of Venezuela, is some 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles) from Key West, Florida. But the camera likely took a roundabout journey on the Loop Current, which would have taken it from Aruba to the coast of central America, past Belize and the Yucatan peninsula, around the western coast of Cuba, into the Gulf Stream and on to the Florida Keys. "I'm totally amazed about this," Schultz said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumpkin Eater Posted June 17, 2010 Report Share Posted June 17, 2010 insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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