Photos found on seabed in Australia finally reunited with owner

A British snow swimmer has reunited hundreds of family photos with their owner 7 years after finding a memory card on the seabed in Australia.

Rory Fitzgerald spotted a camera while swimming in Balmoral Bay, Sydney, in 2015 and tried to get the owner of its memory containing 3. 5GB of photos.

He thought his initiatives had failed until receiving a message within 2020 from the camera’s owner who lives in Singapore.

Mr Fitzgerald, from Hampshire, could finally meet Mister Lisheng last week.

When Mr Fitzgerald, who has lived within Romsey and Bishop’s Waltham, realised the particular camera itself had been unsalvageable he taken out the memory card.

Audrey Lim, Lyndon Lee Lisheng and Rory Fitzgerald

One of the hundreds of photos, he or she found an image of the driver’s licence plus someone wearing a T-shirt for Singapore’s 21km Marina Run from 2011.

“I’ve already been swimming across the globe and you find a lot of elements, most often golf balls, ” he told the BBC.

“I like to do the right matter and return objects to where they will belong, ” he or she said.

Tracking the Marina running team down on Facebook, he posted a message to find out whether anyone can connect him using a Lyndon Lee Lisheng in Singapore and attached the photo.

Mr Lisheng, who have had long considered he would never find his cherished photos again, spotted his name in the Facebook write-up five years later after searching for themselves online.

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He then added Mr Fitzgerald on the social media system and explained the camera was their – although the photo was of a friend.

“It’s a reminder that anything you put on social media stays there, ” Mr Fitzgerald said. “I had forgotten concerning the post until We heard from Lyndon. ”

Mr Lisheng did not want the particular memory card sent in the particular post in case it had been lost and he believed there were too many to deliver by email, so the photos were only returned when Mister Lisheng visited the united kingdom for a friend’s wedding.

“My partner and I have travelled across the world for swimming activities and we have made close friends along the way, ” said Mr Fitzgerald.

Mr Lisheng today counts as one of these, he said, plus Mr Fitzgerald says he is looking forward to producing the return visit to Singapore.