1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,700 As we know, tech and water don't mix. 2 00:00:10,700 --> 00:00:16,140 And so whenever I'm out on the lake enjoying the summer sun near the water's edge, I always 3 00:00:16,140 --> 00:00:27,740 have this anxiety that I'm just going to, I dropped it. 4 00:00:27,740 --> 00:00:35,180 And that anxiety doesn't just come from nowhere. According to phone insurer Ashurian, water-related claims go up 80% in the summer months, which 5 00:00:35,180 --> 00:00:38,900 is great if you pay for cell phone insurance, but let's be real, nobody does. 6 00:00:38,900 --> 00:00:44,540 I sure as hell don't. And so if the worst happens, that's it. 7 00:00:44,540 --> 00:00:54,580 Or is it? It's why I want to meet a person who is able to get her phone back and working. 8 00:00:54,580 --> 00:00:58,340 Her name is Fatima Gadsey, and her phone's resurrection made waves through the tech media 9 00:00:58,340 --> 00:01:02,980 quite simply because of how long it's spent underwater. 10 00:01:02,980 --> 00:01:06,180 Six months. And now? So here's the phone. 11 00:01:06,180 --> 00:01:11,700 It's a white iPhone 11. And as you can see, it's perfectly in shape. 12 00:01:11,700 --> 00:01:15,100 It looks almost as good as my new one. 13 00:01:15,100 --> 00:01:19,180 But if you look at it like in certain spots, like right here, you can definitely see like 14 00:01:19,180 --> 00:01:22,420 some rusting that went on from like being underwater. 15 00:01:22,420 --> 00:01:30,660 But otherwise, it still charges perfectly fine. And when I got it back initially, from clay and I took it home, the microphone wasn't 16 00:01:30,660 --> 00:01:37,620 working, speaker was super muffed. This story happened much like you'd expect on a nice day at the end of last summer, with 17 00:01:37,620 --> 00:01:41,300 the enticing prospect of fun on bumper boats. 18 00:01:41,300 --> 00:01:47,940 Very risky. So we're out on the water, and then I'm, you know, enjoying it, taking pictures of the 19 00:01:47,940 --> 00:01:53,980 view, and then this oncoming boat actually started spraying water onto me. 20 00:01:53,980 --> 00:01:57,500 And then I like totally lost balance, freaked out. 21 00:01:57,500 --> 00:02:03,860 And then I dropped my phone in the water, and it was, and I couldn't even believe it 22 00:02:03,860 --> 00:02:10,180 when I dropped it. It hit me and I just like wanted to cry then, but more than that, I didn't have any backups 23 00:02:10,180 --> 00:02:13,300 or anything. Oh, so you didn't have an iTunes or an iCloud backup at all? 24 00:02:13,300 --> 00:02:19,300 No, I actually didn't. Oh no. And I noticed that for a while I was saying that it's not backing up, and I was thinking 25 00:02:19,300 --> 00:02:26,380 I have to get to that. But I didn't obviously ever consider that, oh, today is the day where I'm going to lose 26 00:02:26,380 --> 00:02:30,540 everything and I should have backed it up sooner. 27 00:02:30,540 --> 00:02:38,220 So how did she get it back and working? 28 00:02:38,220 --> 00:02:44,100 Well it was a night in a shining wetsuit. His name is Clayton Helkenberg, and he's an affid free diver. 29 00:02:44,100 --> 00:02:50,860 It's definitely a hobby of mine, just to swim. But the more I was swimming and the more like sunglasses and phones and stuff I was finding, 30 00:02:50,860 --> 00:02:56,580 also the more trash we were finding. Oh, a vape. 31 00:02:56,580 --> 00:03:02,500 Still got some juice in it. But with the trash one can also find treasure, and Clayton finds all sorts of things, drones, 32 00:03:02,500 --> 00:03:07,340 go-pros, sunglasses, and phones. Like these two Clayton found for us. 33 00:03:07,340 --> 00:03:10,860 One is an iPhone X, and the other an iPhone 7. 34 00:03:10,860 --> 00:03:16,260 This in fact was the first iPhone to get an official IP67 rating thanks to the solid 35 00:03:16,260 --> 00:03:21,740 state home button and the courageous removal of the headphone jack. 36 00:03:21,740 --> 00:03:28,980 I think it was a major help in this story. The IP code is defined by the International Electro-Technical Commission Standard number 37 00:03:28,980 --> 00:03:38,980 60529. Oh, look, they turned on. 38 00:03:39,300 --> 00:03:44,100 Okay, sorry if this is getting a little boring, but you've probably seen the IP code on cell 39 00:03:44,100 --> 00:03:50,780 phone spec sheets. It has a meaning. The first number specifies the level of protection from solids, and the second specifies protection 40 00:03:50,780 --> 00:03:56,700 from water. So, if a device has a rating of IP11, it means that it's protected against an object larger 41 00:03:56,700 --> 00:04:00,060 than 50 millimeters, or a hand. 42 00:04:00,060 --> 00:04:03,660 And it's protected against falling drops of water. 43 00:04:04,660 --> 00:04:07,660 Yep, this is at least IP11. 44 00:04:11,660 --> 00:04:15,660 Well, after 67, I think I'm f***ed. 45 00:04:15,660 --> 00:04:21,620 Um, sorry. At IP67, it means that these are completely dust-tight and protected from water ingress 46 00:04:21,620 --> 00:04:26,620 at up to 1 meter depth for 30 minutes. Apple hasn't even stopped there, though. 47 00:04:26,620 --> 00:04:33,020 Any iPhone above the 10s is rated at IP68, which allows for depths of greater than 1 meter. 48 00:04:33,020 --> 00:04:39,540 So an iPhone 12 is rated at up to 6 meters, 11 Pros are rated at 4 meters, and Fatima 49 00:04:39,540 --> 00:04:45,220 is 11 at 2 meters, which incidentally was about the depth her phone was at for all those 50 00:04:45,220 --> 00:04:51,020 months. I guess then what's like the ratio of stuff in pretty decent condition versus... 51 00:04:51,020 --> 00:04:57,620 Oh, it's pretty low. It's pretty low. So for, let's say, the 200 pairs of sunglasses I found, I probably found 20 that were usable 52 00:04:57,620 --> 00:05:03,620 condition, I would say. Yeah. How about for the ratio of, like, phones or tech you find under your watch? 53 00:05:03,620 --> 00:05:06,620 Phone. Go-Pros to start with. Go-Pros always work. 54 00:05:06,620 --> 00:05:10,940 I have not found an unworking GoPro yet. iPhone 11s, I've found three of them, all three have worked. 55 00:05:10,940 --> 00:05:17,740 I have one working iPhone 10, but I think it was the S8 or S9 that briefly worked, and 56 00:05:17,740 --> 00:05:23,780 then it decided to shut off again. Last year, I sent two big boxes to a guy in, I think it was in Ontario or something like 57 00:05:23,780 --> 00:05:27,180 that, and his channel's the Phone Guru, and then he was able to fix a whole bunch of them, 58 00:05:27,180 --> 00:05:33,740 so I planned to send them some more in the future when I get some better ones, but got away for the summer to people drop some better looking phones. 59 00:05:33,740 --> 00:05:45,060 Okay, so this iPhone 7 appears to be fine, but it's locked, so I can't get in, obviously. 60 00:05:45,060 --> 00:05:50,660 And then this iPhone 10, well, when I first plugged it in, it was boot looping like crazy, 61 00:05:50,660 --> 00:05:55,540 and I put it into restore mode and tried updating it because I don't want to delete anything 62 00:05:55,540 --> 00:06:02,060 that's on here, but I can't really get that to work, and if I were to restore it completely, 63 00:06:02,060 --> 00:06:05,780 then it means I wouldn't be able to get the person's data back to them. 64 00:06:05,780 --> 00:06:09,460 So let's see if we can reach out to them. 65 00:06:09,460 --> 00:06:15,460 Where do I start? Yeah, so what I do with phones, hers, it just turned right on, which was kind of cool, but 66 00:06:15,460 --> 00:06:19,540 iPhone has quite a good lock system, so I'm not cracking that code anytime soon. 67 00:06:19,540 --> 00:06:22,540 So what I do with all phones is I just take the SIM card out, and I plug it into an old 68 00:06:22,540 --> 00:06:25,660 phone, and I have a SIM card reader in that, and it just shows me the phone number that 69 00:06:25,660 --> 00:06:29,260 the phone's registered to, and I just call the phone or text the phone, and if somebody 70 00:06:29,260 --> 00:06:33,140 answers, awesome, and she answers right away, and yeah, it's cool, that's how that works. 71 00:06:33,140 --> 00:06:40,460 Okay, so I got this Android phone to do this, so let's switch the SIM cards here. 72 00:06:40,460 --> 00:06:46,820 Okay, and let's take this one out. 73 00:06:46,820 --> 00:06:55,140 Huh, it's an AT&T SIM card, I wonder what that means, put this in here, okay, it looks 74 00:06:55,140 --> 00:07:01,380 like we got service, there's no number on here, it's blank, does that mean it's an old 75 00:07:01,380 --> 00:07:10,620 SIM card? Okay, so it's an American phone, maybe it's not connected to an American network, and 76 00:07:10,620 --> 00:07:23,220 we live close to the border, let's see if that works. 77 00:07:23,220 --> 00:07:27,060 Blank, darn it, I was hoping to get that phone back. 78 00:07:27,060 --> 00:07:30,180 Okay, that didn't work. 79 00:07:30,180 --> 00:07:37,180 So let's try the next SIM card. 80 00:07:37,180 --> 00:07:44,300 Okay, it's got service. 81 00:07:44,300 --> 00:07:57,460 If I try phoning this number, it's ringing, oh my goodness, okay, oh my gosh, I got some 82 00:07:57,460 --> 00:08:04,060 text messages. The number of the guy who sent message to this phone. 83 00:08:04,060 --> 00:08:18,100 This is a lot harder than I was expecting, I mean how did Clayton do it with Fatima's 84 00:08:18,100 --> 00:08:21,820 phone? 85 00:08:21,820 --> 00:08:25,740 You got your new phone in December, and then a couple months later, what happened? 86 00:08:26,100 --> 00:08:31,540 It was a normal day, I was just chilling, and then I got a text saying, hi, my name 87 00:08:31,540 --> 00:08:35,020 is Clay, did you lose a cell phone in Harrison Lake? 88 00:08:35,020 --> 00:08:39,020 So it was just really, really odd that someone was asking me about this thing that happened 89 00:08:39,020 --> 00:08:44,940 six months ago, and knew exactly where I lost it, I almost genuinely felt like someone's 90 00:08:44,940 --> 00:08:51,300 trying to lure me into somewhere. 91 00:08:51,380 --> 00:08:55,780 So all it was was Clayton trying to return a phone back to their rightful owner, hopefully 92 00:08:55,780 --> 00:08:59,020 with all its photos and memories intact. 93 00:08:59,020 --> 00:09:04,340 I don't know how to feel about receiving something that I was definitely heartbroken to lose, 94 00:09:04,340 --> 00:09:12,380 and it was such a stressful time. I just felt like a lot of memories or pieces of a big time in my life were just kind of 95 00:09:12,380 --> 00:09:15,820 given back to me, so I was mostly grateful for that. 96 00:09:15,820 --> 00:09:19,420 And then I was also thinking like, now what do I do with the second phone? 97 00:09:19,420 --> 00:09:26,060 So what does it feel like when you return a phone to someone? It's awesome, some of the reactions are just people are in total disbelief sometimes, and 98 00:09:26,060 --> 00:09:31,300 yeah, it's pretty cool. Too bad I won't be getting the same reactions myself. 99 00:09:31,300 --> 00:09:39,500 I don't have a lot of Apple stuff at all, like I used to have an iPod and I was about it, but yeah, those iPhone 11's, like Apple makes a crazy waterproof phone, it's very 100 00:09:39,500 --> 00:09:43,940 impressive honestly. Like six months around 10 feet of water, it's just crazy. 101 00:09:43,940 --> 00:09:47,540 Two other ones that called us, they were both charged when I found them, the guys had lost 102 00:09:47,620 --> 00:09:51,660 them the day before, but yeah, I jumped in and I just clicked the button and it turned 103 00:09:51,660 --> 00:09:58,260 on underwater and there's a background of a dog on it, and it was just super funny. 104 00:09:58,260 --> 00:10:01,940 So I guess after this whole ordeal, what's the big lesson you've learned? 105 00:10:01,940 --> 00:10:06,980 Back up your phone, always get hooked on it, I don't know, I assumed, because the last 106 00:10:06,980 --> 00:10:11,660 backup I did was like on iTunes, and that was really lengthy, but I didn't know that 107 00:10:11,660 --> 00:10:16,220 now you could just still just do it on the phone, just go on the iCloud and then subscribe 108 00:10:16,300 --> 00:10:22,300 to it and then it backs up for you, so definitely very easy, very affordable process. 109 00:10:22,300 --> 00:10:26,580 And if you're ever out where you might drop your phone, put it in a zip pocket, just don't 110 00:10:26,580 --> 00:10:31,020 take it on the water. 111 00:10:31,020 --> 00:10:36,140 It's reassuring to know that if your iPhone dunks into a shallow beach or pool, it has 112 00:10:36,140 --> 00:10:40,300 a chance of surviving, but that doesn't mean you should be careless, because despite there 113 00:10:40,300 --> 00:10:44,900 being people like Clayton around, six months is still an awful long time to be without 114 00:10:44,900 --> 00:10:51,140 a phone. Thank you for joining us at this Mac Address from the shores of Cultus Lake, British Columbia. 115 00:10:51,140 --> 00:10:56,500 Now, I'm curious if you yourself have had any tales of an iPhone surviving, or maybe 116 00:10:56,500 --> 00:11:00,140 not surviving, a dunk underwater. Feel free to share them in the comments below.