The iPhone continues to break records. But this time it was not with respect to the competition, but with himself. A user who left behind any similar story shared the following details: how he recovered his iPhone after 460 days at the bottom of the sea. Of course it’s fully functional.

According to the New York Post publication, the protagonist of this story is a iphone 6It belongs to surfer Claire Atfield, who received a call months later to find the device.

A user recovered his iPhone 6 underwater after 460 days

It all started after a morning practice in his hometown of Havant, Hampshire, on August 4, 2021. Atfield fell into the water and with it the device. After that day, what he thought was lost forever. Regarding the accident Claire shared:

It was quite a distance from the sea, but it was in one of the protective phone cases that came with my paddle board, so it must have sunk and just stayed there.

After thinking for almost a year and a half that his iPhone was sitting at the bottom of the sea, On November 7, a local dog walker contacted the owner and claimed to have found him on the beach.not far from where he lost the device in the first place.

And thanks to this Atfield left his debit card and his mother’s health card in the bag.Whoever found it used this last information to communicate with him. The user stated the following after encountering his old iPhone 6:

Gentleman who found it and I’m surprised it still works. The back of the phone is completely broken, so you might think that water got inside.

To be precise, although Atfield already has a replacement for this device, It’s still surprising that it resisted water, first of all, taking into account that the iPhone 6 and 6s models do not have any waterproof certification. As this is an innovation that Apple started implementing from the iPhone 7.