A few years ago, Reddit user Sh0ham posted a rather peculiar post. His brother was on vacation in Zanzibar, where did you lose your iphone. Upon activating the search to try to locate him, he was found drifting in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Then begins a maritime adventure through this vast ocean.
An iPhone protected by an airtight pouch
Yesterday my brother sailed to an island near Zanzibar and left his iPhone on the boat. Somehow his iPhone fell off the ship while still in the sealed bag around 11am.
The author and his family were track iphone trajectory from the beginning. Being in a sealed bag and able to transmit its location, the iPhone had to be on or very close to the surface. Everything indicates that the terminal is driven by the tide.
Thanks to this, its owner had the hope of being able to recover it once it got closer to the shore. Although it had traveled a considerable distance overnight, it was very likely that the terminal would soon run out of battery. If he hadn’t already.
The Find application allows users to track the location of lost devices, the same with which to find the AirTag. Since iOS 13, they can rely on other nearby Apple devices to act as signal “repeaters” when they run out of battery. However, since it was the ocean and there were no other users nearby, things were more complicated.
Finally a fisherman found in their networks and with her he called a relative thanks to the telephone number which can be put in Search. Thus, this user was able to recover his iPhone after sailing in the open sea.
