Ken Kieley was diving off Ogden Point in Victoria on Sunday and were scouring the seafloor for octopus dens when they discovered a GoPro about 30 feet below the surface.
After a couple lost their GoPro camera while in the ocean back in May, a man who was scuba diving found it and returned it to the rightful owner. Kylie Stanton reports.A couple of screenshots, a few seconds of audio and a huge social media reaction were all it took to get aBC man accidentally captures underwater humpback whale feeding
Kieley and his wife were diving off Ogden Point in Victoria on Sunday and were scouring the seafloor for octopus dens when they discovered a GoPro about 30 feet below the surface.Kieley said when he got home, he discovered some water had gotten into the camera, but its SD card was in perfect shape.On the card were several videos, including a recording of the camera’s owner — a diver himself — losing it as he slipped into the ocean.
“It was clearly on his head … he went to go down, and you could see the camera come off his head and it was falling,” he said. ”Kieley decided there was enough material on the card to try and connect it back with its owner, so he got to work.One of the videos included a tiny snippet of the camera’s owner speaking to his girlfriend, which Kieley clipped out as well — a choice that proved instrumental in getting the camera home.
Eventually, the post ended up in front of the camera owner’s mother — who recognized her son from the short snippet of his voice. “She said it sounded a lot like me, it looked a lot like me,” said Shay Lalor, who lost the camera in May.“I thought maybe someone would find it but I thought the chances of me getting it back were pretty slim,” Lalor said.It’s not the first time Kieley’s family has put a camera from the sea into its owner’s hands.“It actually worked underwater … we took it to a local dive shop here, Wilson’s Diving, and Chris, the owner, had heard about someone losing a camera and he got it back to them.
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