An iPhone 5 user from San Diego almost lost his Apple handset after accidentally dropping it into the sea.
“My brother tried throwing my phone to me,” Gregory Papadin told British newspaper The Mirror. “It ended up going straight under water and sank to bottom of the ocean floor.”
Papadin says the underwater pressure proved too much for him and his brother to swim down and retrieve the phone, but the captain of the ship he was renting was able to dive in and get it — to discover that the phone had not only managed to survive the episode, but actually film its own watery descent.
Check out the video below:
The iPhone 5 in question was protected by a LifeProof case, described by its manufacturers as being capable of surviving “anything you throw at [it].”
The company claims its waterproof cases will protect the iPhone down to depths of around 6.6 feet, but judging by this video it may have been selling itself a bit short.
Source: Mirror
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
6 responses to “Dropped iPhone 5 films its watery descent to the ocean floor”
Bs. In protective case for sure…these guys were staging it.
Have you even read article???
That was totally staged. If it were real, the camera would not have been pointed at each person’s face so perfectly and the phone camera would not have remained in a facing up position as the device sank.
A totally phony video designed to sell waterproof cases…
Phony or not, it sold me on a LifeProof. The situation might be phony, but the phone was definitely underwater. That coupled with their lifetime guarantee did the trick for me.
Effective advertising.
Why would he be rolling video and then throw the phone to his brother? Fake!!!
I started to watch the iPhone video and the first thing that popped in my head was…someone needs to see the VVS PSA from Glove and Boots!!! I scroll down to post it and BAM…you beat me to it!!! Thanks!!