A China Airlines employee walking along a Taiwanese beach six years after she lost it while on vacation in Hawaii.
“I just was floored that it was my camera and it was all my old pictures and it was amazing,” of Newnan, Georgia, told Hawaii News Now.. “I just couldn’t believe it had floated so far, so long ago and the memory card was still intact.”
In 2007, Scallan lost the camera—a Canon Powershot in an underwater housing—on a night dive near Kaanapali, Maui. The China Airlines employee found the camera this February and shared the images in hopes of finding the owner. Scallan saw the images after a friend E-mailed her a article that had published the photos.
Scallan’s luck didn’t stop after the camera was found. China Airlines to fly her to Taiwan to reclaim her gear. She said she’s not sure she can go, because she just started a new job—a decision that lends itself to the most unfathomable headline in this strange series of events, “Georgia Woman Refuses Free Trip to Taiwan.”
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