The lost camera reunited with its owner after a YEAR at the bottom of the ocean… diver discovers it and puts pictures on Google+

The owner of this waterlogged camera must have thought it was gone for ever, along with his precious holiday pictures, when he dropped it in the ocean.

But a year later a diver spotted it rusting away in the depths and rescued it. Even more astonishingly, he was able to recover the pictures and post them on Google+.

Now, thanks to the wonders of social networking, the owner - an unnamed Canadian fireman - has his holiday photos back.

Wildlife photographer Markus Thompson was scuba diving off Vancouver, British Columbia, when he stumbled upon the strange sight – an expensive digital camera lodged in Deep Bay.    More Read