A marriage of Florida fond of collecting seashells on the beach and his tech-savvy neighbor made it possible for a woman who dropped her cell phone al mar had it back with him 77 days later in almost perfect condition.
Channel 12 of television Palm Beach (southeastern Florida) echoed this story involving the shell finders Laura Leigh and Lawton Martin, neighbor Devron Richardson and ‘mermaid’ Amie Vreeken.
The four met in Delray Beach (Florida) this week for the delivery of the phone and spoke before the cameras of the channel.
The Martins found the telephone on the shore of mar When they were looking for shells, they took it home, took off the protective cover and put it to dry.
As they had no charger for that brand of telephone, they asked their good neighbor Richardson for help, who always helps them when their computer breaks down.
He charged the phone’s battery and when he turned it on, a photo of a woman dressed in siren with four children in costume around him.
With the help of a tool to find in internet to the people who appear in a Photography tracked down Vreeken, who plays a mermaid at a show in Las Vegas, and couldn’t believe what Richardson wrote to her over a messaging system.
“!OMG (Oh my God!) This is a joke! It’s fantastic ”, were the words that Vreeken wrote in his new phone in response to Richardson.
Vreeken, a mother of four, said that every two weeks she travels to visit a friend in Delray Beach and in February they came out in kayak and a wave hit them and made the phone overboard. They even searched for him with a metal detector and couldn’t find him.
“77 days passed, 77 days, from the second it fell to mar until they called to tell me they found my phone, ”Vreeken said in amazement.
As he told the television channel, in addition to thanking the Martin and Richardsons, he wrote a very favorable review about the phone cover who bought for USD with the title “77 days in the ocean and the phone is fine.”
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