Chinese father turns to professionals after cellphone falls into lake – all to get back photos of his young daughter
Dad hires team of divers to fish the lost device and its precious memories from depths of reservoir
One loving father in China’s central province of Hubei hired professional divers to retrieve a cellphone he dropped in a lake – all because it contained nearly 1,000 photos of his young daughter, a news portal reports.
The man, identified only by his surname Cheng, was fishing in Danjiangkou Reservoir in Shiyan city when the phone fell out of his hand and sank nine metres to the bottom of the lake, according to Dfic.cn.
The phone was worth about 2,000 yuan (HK$2,425 or US$310), but the true value lay in what was stored on it – 900 photos he had taken of his daughter over the three years since she was born.
Pained by the loss, he decided to hire three friends who were also professional divers to find it.
They rented a boat and underwater equipment, with the total bill coming to more than 1,000 yuan.
They managed to locate the device, but sadly, the water had done its damage. The phone would not power on. But Cheng took an optimistic view of the whole incident.
“I still think our efforts are worthwhile when I recalled my child’s smiling face in the pictures. I would take this as special life experience,” he said.
The takeaway – don’t phone while fishing and back up to the cloud.
