Camera’s voyage to Germany
Finder wants to reunite the camera with its owners after it went missing two months ago
A video camera which washed away from a beach at Flamborough has been found on a remote German island.
A video camera which washed away from a beach at Flamborough has been found on a remote German island. Packed inside waterproof casing, a camera, which is believed to belong to a young boy, has survived undamaged despite its 350-mile journey across the North Sea.
Retrieved footage found on the camera shows a boy splashing through the rock pools before he places the camera down to film at Thornwick Bay on September 1.
The family can then be seen exploring the pools before the tide knocks the camera from its perch and it disappears into the North Sea.
Two months after it washed away, the camera was discovered off the coast of Germany. Ronald Spreer found it on a remote German island called Hallig Süderoog.
His son Holger Spreer and his partner Nele Wree are the only residents to live on the island and they posted the camera’s story online after the it was found earlier this month.
The said: “While playing, he put [the camera] on a rock, then continued to work with a bucket and his sister, probably forgot the still-running camera and kept moving.”
The couple were able to watch footage from its memory card which shows the boy, who looks to be aged between 10 and 12, playing on his scooter, trampolining with his sister and filming his family – even his grandparents sleeping on the sofa.
The owner of the camera has not yet been found. Watch the footage on The Scarborough News website. Is it your camera? Email poppy.kennedy@jpress.co.uk
The camera was found two months after it washed away