Photo credit: Lyalfarhat
Liel Farhat enjoyed a sailing trip with friends near Athens when her iPhone 16 Pro ended up in the sea during a swimming stop. She had set the device down to take a photo. It slid into a net on the yacht and disappeared beneath the surface.
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No assistance came from the skipper when she asked for help locating it. Farhat started to believe the phone was lost forever beneath the waves. A friend’s husband offered to search. He had trained as a diver twenty years earlier and decided to go underwater to look. He spotted the phone quickly because its screen stayed lit from the video recording still running. Her device rested on the seabed at a depth of around four meters in the salt water of the Aegean. It continued recording the entire time.
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Eleven minutes passed before the diver surfaced with the iPhone 16 Pro in hand. Farhat dried the device with a towel right away. It turned on without trouble and operated exactly as before the incident. Footage from those eleven minutes shows fish swimming around the phone on the ocean floor. One fish in particular turned to the lens and remained focused for several seconds, as if inspecting the glowing rectangle nestled among the seaweed and sand.
Apple gives the iPhone 16 Pro an IP68 grade for dust resistance and protection against fresh water immersion up to 1.5 meters. Salt water and deeper depths typically pose major threats to phones. This one handled both with no damage. Farhat compiled the clips into a short film and shared them on Instagram.
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