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Humanity at its best.

December 22nd 2019:

In Delray beach, South Florida I lost my mobile while I was in the water with friends and family. That was 5months old new iPhone XS. I dropped it in the ocean and couldn’t find. The waves were very high that day because of too much wind.

This was last photo with that phone in Delray beach.

I discontinued insurance few months before thinking insurance is unnecessary for me. Later realised the value of insurance though. However, was forgetting about this mobile with time. On January 11th got an email asking if I lost any mobile and asked to confirm the mobile made & lost date & time. I was little surprised as I didn’t make any police complaints since it was lost in ocean & not public place or somewhere else. Replied the email with the details I had. Later got a response confirming that someone found my mobile & trying to return it to me.

It was an unbelievable & also depressing moment as I was not sure how the mobile condition will be and whether it will be of any use or not. Later fixed a date to meet the person in a nearby Starbucks. The lady who found my mobile named herself as Jody. She came with her 95years old Mom. And here is the rest of the story goes -

Jody is staying near Delray Beach with her mother in a Condo. On January 1st she went for her routine morning walk on the sidewalk of Delray Beach and was taking few photos of Seagulls that day. Then suddenly a shiny reflection sort of she noticed in the beach. She took that object photo too & walked near to the object thinking that could be a nice seashells. But what she found was a garbage looked dirty mobile wrapped with sand and water. She took that and brought to her home.

That red circled object is the mobile.

She cleaned this first and Googled for some wet phone recovery suggestions. She found that putting the mobile in rice bag is a well recommended idea. However she had no rice in her home. She went to a grocery store picked rice and kept the mobile in a ziplock with rice for a week. In the meanwhile she contact police and police said they didn’t receive any lost mobile complaint but if she want she can drop that in Delray Beach police station. Thinking police will not be of much help she waited and after 7days she opens the mobile from ziplock bag and tried to charge the mobile in her friends house as she has no iPhone.

But the charging port and all around phone is filled with sand. She removed one by one sand with needle and after a day she tried charging and yes it was charging. She then contact Apple shop but they said they have no information about the owner. After looking into the sim she contact AT&T store and thereby she found my First Name, Last Name and masked email Id where only first and last letter was visible with @gmail.com appending at the end. She guessed it could be my full name and tried few permutation combination. And one try of her hit the target.

I thanked her many times for her humanity & dedication. Such a blessed soul she is.

Also the miracle is being under salt water for such a long time (Dec 22nd, 2019 to Jan 1st, 2020) more than 1 week the phone is working just like new. Camera, sound are just like they were before. And not even a single scratch on the mobile.

This is the picture of the phone when I received from Jody.

Right now I am typing in this mobile and posting this blog.

A moment with Jody and her mother. (With the lost & found mobile ofcourse)

God Bless Jody. Good hearted people are still there in our society. Also nevertheless Apple phone proves their claim on waterproof and dust resistance. This could be a genuine case study of Apple Inc. 😊