Three years and 600 miles later, a Scuba diver’s camera washes ashore

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A scuba diver who lost her underwater camera off the shores of Scotland three years ago has been reunited with the device, which washed up 600 miles away in Sweden.

Adele Devonshire had been diving along the waters of St Abbs in Berwickshire, Scotland, back in July 2013, when her camera detached from its clip.

After searching for it as best as she could, Devonshire resigned herself to the fact that she’d never see her camera – or the photos taken on it – again.

That was until last week when Devonshire was tipped off to a Facebook post in a group specifically devoted to items lost at sea.

There, a man from the Swedish island of Gullholmen had uploaded photos from her lost camera. The snaps included one of her father, an underwater selfie and shots of the waterproof case.

Lars Mossberg had stumbled across the camera along the rocky coastline of his tiny island.

“I don’t know why I looked down at it but I saw something orange,” he told the Telegraph. “I left it for a while when I took it home because I didn’t believe it would work.”

After he’d let it dry and pried the waterproof case open, Mossberg was surprised to see the camera worked perfectly.

Devonshire quickly contacted Mossberg, and verified the camera was hers after he asked her a few questions about the photos. It was shipped back to her a few days later.

“To think that it had presumably been bobbing around in the sea for all that time - and still works - is remarkable,” she said. “It just goes to show the power of the internet and the kindness of people.”