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Updated: June 13, 2010


Sea Turtle Finds Lost Camera, Films Itself Swimming

Stephen Messenger/Travel and Nature

An Incredible Adventure, Caught on Film

When Dutchman Dick de Bruin accidentally dropped his waterproof video camera while scuba diving in Aruba, he must have figured he would never see it again--but he was wrong. Six months later, the camera was found on a beach in Florida, a thousand miles away containing an amazing video. It turns out the camera's strap became tangled around the shell of a passing sea turtle. Somehow, the animal had inadvertently switched the camera on, capturing at least part of its thousand mile journey on film.

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