a model found functional a year and a half after going under the ice

In march 2015, while he was indulging in a fishing party with two friends on one frozen lake (it was -25 degrees ° C), Michael Guntrum, a resident of Knox, Pennsylvania, felt that it was biting at the end of his line and therefore put his iPhone 4 smartphone on his lap. Unfortunately, the toy escaped and rebounded to end up in the hole where it was fishing and therefore under the ice, instead of falling flat on the snow. The matter seemed to be closed.

However, in last september, more than one time later, a treasure hunter takes advantage of the milder weather to take out the metal detector and carry out a few searches. It's under 15 centimeters of clay mud that he will find the lost iPhone 4. You can imagine that if we talk about the case, it’s because the smartphone is still functional. Now, it should be specified that this one was not naked and benefited from a good protection.

After cleaning, drying and starting the smartphone, the treasure hunter has found the owner's number in the contact list (no Touch-ID on this generation and no password obviously), in order to give him back his device. Michael Guntrum owning an iPhone 6S, his old smartphone will end up in the hands of his mother.

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