Unsinkable: iPhone spent almost a year underwater - and it works!

Members of the Four Lakes Scuba Diving Club in Madison, Wisconsin are known for their operations

on environmental cleanup at Lake Mendota. They recently discovered an interesting find at the bottom of the lake: an iPhone.

What is known

Typically, smartphones stop working after being underwater for a long time. They fail when they are taken out and tried to be charged. But not this iPhone: it charges and remains functional.

</ img>

Club members decided to find the owner of the gadget.And thanks to the internal data of the device, they finally found him. As it turned out, the smartphone belongs to a graduate of a local university. The girl dropped her iPhone in the summer of 2022 while boating with friends. That is, he lay in the water for almost a whole year and “survived.”

The message does not name a specific smartphone model. But judging by the photos, this is an iPhone 12 Pro or iPhone 13 Pro.