Euronews
Date: 29/03/2018
By: Emma Beswick
When Serina Tsubakihara lost her camera while diving off Japan’s Ishigaki Island in 2015,
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Serina Tsubakihara & Park Lee via Storyful
she thought she’d never see it again.
Fast forward three years and students from the Yue Ming Elementary School in Yilan, a city in northeast Taiwan, found the waterproof Canon G12 washed up on a beach during a clean-up event, over 240 km from where it was lost.
Along with their teacher, Park Lee, the students put out a call that included images from the lichen-covered device on Facebook, asking for help in identifying the photographer.
Less than 12 hours later Lee and his class had located Tsubakihara.
“Thanks to the amazing internet world, we’ve found the camera’s owner! She is a student who is currently in her third year of English studies at the Department of Foreign Languages in Tokyo’s Sophia University. The world is really coincidental — she actually travelled to Taiwan with friends in March last year,” Lee wrote on Facebook.
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