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Man drops his iPhone in the ocean, phone films descent to ocean floor

Man drops his iPhone in the ocean, phone films descent to ocean floor

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It’s a vacation hassle no one wants to deal with: a phone sinking in the ocean.

Fortunately for Gregory Papadin, a San Diego man vacationing in Menorca, Spain, the captain of his boat was quick to dive after his dropped iPhone 5 and retrieve it from the depths below.

“My brother tried throwing my phone to me in the ocean. It ended up going straight under water and sank to bottom of the ocean floor,” Papadin wrote on YouTube.

Paladin and his brother considered diving after it, but knew their rescue attempt would fail.

“The underwater pressure was too much for both my brother and I to swim and get it, but the owner of the boat we rented was able to reduce the pressure using a special breathing method meant for diving,” he continued. “He was able to retrieve it, and my phone managed to survive the whole ordeal!”

“Oh, no! Thank you!” Papadin exclaimed upon seeing the captain resurface with his still-working phone. “Oh, my God, thank you so much.”

If only all owners of dropped phones were so lucky.

Not only did the phone survive the two-minute descent to the ocean floor — it was apparently protected by an ultra-durable LifeProof case — it recorded the entire trip down.

The video, a great souvenir for Papadin to remember his vacation, is now going viral.

Last month, Catalin Marin was taking photos from the top of the Liberty House building in Dubai when a gust of wind knocked his iPhone out of his hand. Remarkably, the phone survived the 42-storey fall.

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Marin was able to use the Find My iPhone app to communicate with the worker who found his phone on the ground below, and man and phone were happily reunited shortly thereafter.