In a remarkable story of loss, recovery, and resilience, a camera lost during a 2012 shipwreck off Vancouver Island is finally being returned to its owner, Vancouver artist Paul Burgoyne. The camera had gone down with his trawler, the Bootlegger, during a 500-kilometer voyage to his summer home in Tahsis, B.C., carrying with it irreplaceable photos.

Fast forward two years to May 2014, when students Tella Osler and Beau Doherty, along with diving officer Siobhan Gray, discovered the camera 12 meters underwater during a research dive near Aguilar Point. Marine ecologist Professor Isabelle M. Côté examined the barnacle-covered device and was astonished to find the 8GB Lexar memory card still functional.

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