Underwater camera lost by tourist found after 5 years 9600 kms away

The camera was lost in Hawaii in 2007 and was found last month on a Taiwan beach with memory card intact & the owner was traced from the photographs

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A Taiwanese airline said on Monday it has traced the American owner of a diving camera, which was lost in Hawaii in 2007 and was found last month on a Taiwan beach more than 9600km away.

Flag carrier China Airlines said the owner of the Canon camera, identified as Lindsay Crumbley Scallan from Georgia, would be offered a free round-trip ticket to Taiwan to collect it. The memory card with photos of Scallan's Hawaii visit remained intact inside the barnacle-encrusted camera."Ms Scallan is welcome to visit Taiwan so that she can take home the invaluable memories of her trip to Hawaii," said Lee Wen-yi, an official of the airline.

 Scallan lost the waterproof camera in August 2007 during a diving trip in Maui. It was found by Douglas Cheng, a China Airlines manager, while he was strolling along a beach at Taitung on Taiwan's east coast on February 13. The memory card allowed Cheng to identify where the camera had been lost as per an AFP report.

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